Genus Falsophrixothrix Pic, 1937

Fig. 1D

Falsophrixothrix Pic, 1937: 138. Gender: feminine. Type species. Phrixothrix javanus [sic!] Pic, 1914; by original designation (Pic 1937: 138).

Literature.

Olivier (1911: 20): species description [as Phrixothrix]; Pic (1914: 13): species description [as Phrixothrix]; Pic (1921a: 16): species description [as Phrixothrix]; Pic (1937: 138): original generic description; Wittmer (1938: 301): description of an aberration [term used to denote a class of individuals within a species; unavailable name; see Glossary in ICZN (1999)]; Wittmer (1939: 23): species description; Wittmer (1944: 217): catalogue; Pic (1951: 5): species description; Crowson (1972: 52): remark; Paulus (1975: 78): remark; Herring (1978: 471): checklist; Herring (1987: 157): checklist; Viviani and Bechara (1993: 615): remark; Lawrence and Newton (1995: 857): catalogue, remark; Viviani and Bechara (1997: 389): remark; O‘Keefe (2002: 182): remark; Li et al. (2008b: 495): review; Kawashima et al. (2010: 139): book chapter; Lawrence et al. (2010b: 175): remark; Kundrata and Bocak (2011a: 57): remark; Oba et al. (2011: 777): remark; Janisova and Bocakova (2013: 3): remark; Kovalev and Kirejtshuk (2016: 205): remark; Kundrata et al. (2019: 1263): molecular phylogeny; Douglas et al. (2021: 2): molecular phylogeny. In addition to the aforementioned literature, this genus was included in PhD theses by Jeng (2008) and Roza (2022).

Remarks.

Falsophrixothrix currently contains six described and several undescribed species from Southeast Asia. It can be recognized by its small body size, strongly bipectinate antennae (Fig. 1D), and usually shortened elytra which do not cover the entire abdomen. It should be noted that all previous authors treated the gender of Falsophrixothrix as masculine; however, - thrix (hair in Greek) is feminine.