Falsophrixothrix Pic, 1937

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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.

Figures

Figure 1. Morphology of Rhagophthalmidae A habitus of Dioptoma adamsii from Sri Lanka (syntype of D. greeni), female, NHMUK, dorsal view B head of Dioptoma adamsii from Sri Lanka, male, NHMUK, frontal view C head and pronotum of Diplocladon hasseltii hasseltii from Indonesia, male, SDEI, dorsal view D habitus of Falsophrixothrix sp. from Indonesia, male, NHMUK, dorsal view E head and pronotum of Rhagophthalmus sp. from China, male, first author's collection, lateral view F habitus of Rhagophthalmus sp. from China, male, first author's collection, dorsal view. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (A, F); 1.0 mm (B, E); 2.0 mm (C, D).