Falsocaenia
Creators: name: Bocakova, Milada
name: Baciakova, Barbora
name: Nascimento, Elynton Alves Do
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lycidae
Falsocaenia

description: Key to species of the genus Falsocaenia
1. Elytra widened distally (Figs 1–6, 8, 10–14)................................................................ 3
- Elytra slender, each elytron parallel-sided (Figs 7, 9)......................................................... 2
2. Transverse yellow stripe on elytra broad, present in posterior 1/2–4/5 of elytra........................... F. excavatipes
- Transverse yellow stripe on elytra slender, present in posterior 1/2–7/12 of elytra............................. F. grisea
3. Each elytron in posterior 1/3 twice wider than humeral width, parameres as long as 3/4 of phallus, reaching to apical phallic constriction (Figs. 42–44)..................................................................... F. meridana
- Elytra slenderer, up to 1.7x wider in posterior 1/3 than humeral width............................................ 4
4. Longitudinal and transverse elytral costae orange, inner cells dark brown (Figs 14), distal portion of phallus slender, oval (Fig. 66)................................................................................. F. aurantiacocostata
- Elytral coloration forming unicoloured portions, distal enlargement of phallus almost circular......................... 5
5. Whole elytra orange, only basal sutural stripe slightly infuscate, distal enlargement of phallus circular (Fig. 54).. F. d e c ip i e n s
- Elytra partly dark brown to black........................................................................ 6
6. Except paired yellow spots elytra dark brown............................................................... 7
- Yellow portions of elytra large, usually forming transverse or longitudinal stripes................................... 8
7. Only posterior spots in apical 1/6 of elytra yellow (Fig. 6), distal enlargement of phallus circular, wider than parameres in posterior 1/3 (Fig. 48)...................................................................... F. melanopteron
- Most of elytra black, only humeral spots yellow (Fig. 3)........................................... F. ecuadorensis
8. Elytral apex yellow (Figs 4, 5)............................................................. F. longehumeralis
- Elytral apex dark brown to black......................................................................... 9
9. Parameres reaching apical 1/8 of phallus, elytra largely yellow, only basal 3/5 of suture, two transverse median spots, and apical 1/6 of elytra dark brown (Fig. 2).......................................................... F. irregularis
- Parameres shorter.................................................................................... 10
10. Basal 3/5 of elytra largely yellow, only sutural region in basal quarter dark brown (Fig. 10), male genitalia slender, distal enlargement circular (Fig. 63)................................................................... F. paranana
- Basal 3/5 of elytra with longitudinal black stripes (Figs. 8, 11, 12).............................................. 11
11. Each elytron with a yellow transverse stripe behind elytral midlength.......................................... 12
- Each elytron with a longitudinal black stripe (Fig. 11)................................................ F. incognitus
12. Pronotum with whole lateral margins yellow, elytra with a transverse black stripe in basal 1/5–1/2 (Fig. 8), distal enlargement of phallus circular to transversely oval (Fig. 51)................................................... F. apicicornis
- Yellow lateral margins of pronotum slender, each elytron with longitudinal yellow stripe along primary costa 3................................................................................................... F. diversecostata
description: Published as part of Bocakova, Milada, Baciakova, Barbora & Nascimento, Elynton Alves Do, 2012, Revision of the genus Falsocaenia (Coleoptera: Lycidae), pp. 282-296 in Zootaxa 3478 on page 296, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.27, http://zenodo.org/record/282255