Genus Faronus AUBÉ, 1844

Previously, only one species of this Mediterranean genus had been recorded from Crete, F. lafertei AUBÉ, 1844 (BLATTNÝ & BLATTNÝ 1916). Since the distribution of A. lafertei is confined to the West Mediterranean, this record undoubedly refers to F. parallelus BESUCHET, 1958, a widespread East Mediterranean species. Three additional species, all of them endemic to the Lefka Ori, West Crete, are described below.

Many Faronus species are subject to remarkable intraspecific variation, particularly of the number and position of impressions on the pronotum and the elytra, the length of the hind wings, and even of the shape of the aedeagus. The latter is often inverted (mirrored).