Falconius Bolivar 1898
Creators: name: Deng, Weian
name: Zheng, Zhemin
name: Wei, Shizhen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tetrigidae
Falconius

description: Key t o the species of Falconius Bolivar, 1898
1. Posterior angles of lateral lobes of pronotum stickle-like, apice of spine curved forward (Fig. 1).............................. 2
- Posterior angles of lateral lobes of pronotum apices spine transverse (Fig. 2) .......................................................... 10
2. Width of vertex equal to width of one eye; with one rounded concavity before posterior angles of lateral lobes of pronotum (Fig. 3) ................................................................................................. Falconius pseudoclavitarsis Günther
- Width of vertex wider than width of one eye; without rounded concavity before posterior angles of lateral lobes of pronotum ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3
3. Spine of posterior angles slightly curved forward; upper margin of pronotum slightly straight in profile (Fig. 4)....... ..................................................................................................................................... Falconius palawanicus Günther
- Spine of posterior angles distinctly curved forward; upper margin of pronotum compresso-elevated in the form of hump between shoulders (Fig. 5) or undulated in profile (Fig. 6) ................................................................................ 4
4. Upper margin of pronotum compresso-elevated in the form of hump between shoulders in profile........................... 5
- Upper margin of pronotum undulated, without compresso-elevated, not hump between shoulders in profile............ 6
5 Width of vertex 1.4 times the width of one eye; head not exserted above the pronotal surface; lower margins of mid- dle femur with two projections (Fig. 7) ............................................................................... Falconius bedoti (Bolivar)
- Width of vertex 2 times the width of one eye; head distinctly exserted above the pronotal surface; lower margins of middle femur nearly straight (Fig. 8) ............................................................................. Falconius clavitarsis (Bolivar)
6. Lower margins of middle femur nearly straight ........................................................................................................... 7
- Lower margins of middle femur undulated, with two projections ............................................................................... 8
7. Width of vertex 1.5 times the width of one eye; width of tegmina 1.5 times the width of middle femur; first segment of hind tarsi expanded ........................................................................................................... Falconius dubius Günther
- Width of vertex 2 times the width of one eye; width of tegmina twice the width of middle femur; first segment of hind tarsi not expanded ..................................................................................... Falconius guangxiensis Zheng et Jiang
description: Published as part of Deng, Weian, Zheng, Zhemin & Wei, Shizhen, 2009, A review of the genus Falconius Bolivar (Orthoptera: Tetrigoidea: Scelimeninae), pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1976 on pages 64-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185173