A new species of Falsocaenia (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Brazil

Abstract

A new species of Lycidae, Falsocaenia santatereza sp. nov. is described and illustrated. This species is a member of a Müllerian mimicry ring from the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, presenting color pattern also found in other sites of Neotropical region. There are now 15 species from Falsocaenia Pic, 1922, all restricted to Neotropical region. Additionally, a new site of occurrence is registered for Falsocaenia paranana (Pic, 1922).

A Checklist of the Lycidae (Coleoptera) of Colombia with a key to the genera

“…Lycidae are cosmopolitan, comprising approximately 4600 species worldwide, distributed in about 160 genera, with high diversity in tropical regions (Bocak and Bocakova 2010). In the Neotropical region, only recently the knowledge of lycid taxonomy and biology has been expanded and developed, (e.g., Bocakova 2001, 2005, Nascimento and Bocakova 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2012a, 2012b, 2017a, 2017b, 2016, 2019a, 2019b, Barancikova et al 2010, Bocakova et al 2012, Bocakova and Nascimento 2013, Bocakova et al 2015, Ferreira 2015, 2016, Ferreira and Ivie 2016, Pérez-Hernández et al 2019, Ferreira and Silveira 2020, Nascimento et al 2020. However, despite the recent progress in the taxonomy of Neotropical Lycidae we still know very little regarding ecology and distribution patterns (e.g., Masek et al, 2018), which are important sources of information for several areas such as evolutionary and biogeographical analyses, as well as conservation biology.…”