Falsocamaria PIC, 1917

Wang, Guo-Dong & R, P., 2012, Review Of The Chinese Species Of Falsocamaria Pic With Descriptions Of Two New Species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Stenochiinae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 58 (4), pp. 305-324 : 305-306

Falsocamaria PIC, 1917

Falsocamaria PIC, 1917: 19 , (Type species: Falsocamaria obscura PIC, 1917 : deposited in Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris); GEBIEN 1942: 722; KULZER 1954: 59; MASUMOTO 1990: 93–100; MASUMOTO 1993: 142–146.

Eucamaria GEBIEN, 1917: 149 (Type species: Camaria spectabilis PASCOE, 1860 ). Synonymised by MASUMOTO 1990.

Remarks. In this paper, we follow the diagnosis of Falsocamaria utilized by MASUMOTO (1993).

Coloration and lustre various, almost glabrous. Body elongate and sub-parallel-sided; winged.

Apex of clypeus produced forwards on each side; ocular sulci rather distinct. Male antennae not so long but reaching humeri, 4 apical segments weakly thickened and flattened. Pronotum roundly narrowed anteriorly; anterior margin short and almost straight, gently rimmed on each side; posterior margin slightly bisinuate and rimmed; posterior margins rather finely rimmed, not crenulate; anterior angles rounded; hind angles sub-rectangular or rather acute; disc strongly convex, often longitudinally impressed medially. Elytra more or less punctate-striate or with micro-shagreened and punctate-striated grooves; intervals gently convex, ridged in some species; humeri swollen; apices not acuminate. Prosternal process depressed, obtusely produced posteriad; mesosternum gently excavated in basal portion, posterior edge of the excavation gently ridged, anterior ends of the V-shaped ridge gradually inclined forwards; 1st abdominal sternite not elevated anteriorly. Male mesotibia thickened in apical half of inner margin. Male genitalia elongate, with tapered and fused apices.