Falsocis occultus Lopes-Andrade & Lawrence, 2011, 2012

Araujo, Lucimar Soares de & Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano, 2016, A new species of Falsocis (Coleoptera: Ciidae) from the Atlantic Forest biome with new geographic records and an updated identification key for the species of the genus, Zoologia (e 20150173) 33 (1), pp. 1-6 : 5

Falsocis occultus Lopes-Andrade & Lawrence, 2011

Additional material. BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis, 1 male and 1 female (MNHUB) labeled “Petropolis 17.10.[18]98 \ Falsocis occultus Lopes-Andrade & Lawrence, 2011 det. C. Lopes-Andrade 2012”.

Remarks. The abovementioned specimens from MNHUB are historical material collected in the end of the XIX century. Attempts to recollect the species in Petrópolis and adjacent localities in the state of Rio de Janeiro were unsuccessful (the most recent collecting effort is part of the work of A RAUJO et al. 2015). It is worth mentioning that most known specimens of F. occultus belong to the type series, from a single collection in the type locality (Linhares, state of Espírito Santo). Besides these, F. occultus is known only from a single male collected in 1940 at Nova Teutônia, state of Santa Catarina ( LOPES-ANDRADE & LAWRENCE 2011) and the couple reported here from Petrópolis, collected in 1898. Recent collections in south Brazil, in a well preserved forest in São Francisco de Paula, state of Rio Grande do Sul, did not reveal any F. occultus ( GRAF-PETERS et al. 2011) . Future works should evaluate whether F. occultus is extinct in the Brazilian South.