Falsocis brasiliensis Lopes-Andrade, 2007

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 : 4

Falsocis brasiliensis Lopes-Andrade, 2007

Additional material. BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia, 1 male and 3 females (CELC) labeled “BRASIL: RJ Itatiaia, Parque Nacional de Itatiaia; 09.XI.2011 leg. L.S. Araujo ”, these specimens being additionally labeled as follows: 1 female \Código: Trans.: Parcela: Fungo: [printed] 3 C 2 [handwritten]”, 1 male and 1 female “Código: Trans.: Parcela: [printed] EXTRA [handwritten]” and 1 female (CELC) labeled “T3 PA F1”; BRAZIL: Minas Gerais, Viçosa , 1 male and 1 female (CELC) labeled “BRASIL: MG Viçosa, Mata do Paraíso; 28.I.2011 leg. L. S. Araujo \T1 PC F2”; BRAZIL: Espírito Santo, Sooretama , 1 teneral male (CELC) and 3 pigmented males (CELC, in alcohol) labeled “BRASIL: ES Sooretama, Reserva Biológica de Sooretama 30.XI.2011 leg. L. S. Araujo \Código: Trans.: Parcela: Fungo: [printed] 2 B 1 [handwritten]”.

Host fungi. The specimens from “ Parque Nacional de Itatiaia ” were found in Hymenochaete luteobadia (Fr.) Höhn. & Litsch. (1907) (collection code “3 C 2”), Hymenochaete sp. (not identified to species level because it was in an advanced decaying stage; collection code “3 A 1”). The specimens from “Mata do Paraíso” were found in H. luteobadia . The specimens from “ Reserva Biológica de Sooretama ” were found in Hymenochaetaceae, possibly a Phellinus sp. , and together with F. sooretama . The presence of a teneral male in this basidiome indicates that this specimen, and possibly the other three males, bred in this basidiome, which led us to consider it a host record. Available host-fungi records for F. brasiliensis indicate that it is monophagous, usually associated with basidiomes of Hymenochaete ( LOPES-ANDRADE & LAWRENCE 2011, SAURAT et al. 2015). This single host record in Phellinus sp. indicates that the species may breed in alternative hosts of the same fungus family (Hymenochaetacea), but Hymenochaete , especially H. luteobadia , is the main host ( GRAF-PETERS et al. 2011, LOPES-ANDRADE & LAWRENCE 2011, SAURAT et al. 2015).

Remarks. By the time of its description, F. brasiliensis was thought to be restricted to three fragments of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil ( LOPES-ANDRADE 2007). A few years later, it was recorded from another Atlantic Forest fragment located in Santa Maria do Jetibá, state of Espírito Santo ( LOPES-ANDRADE & LAWRENCE 2011 ). In the same work, F. brasiliensis was recorded from “Belvedere”, which is indeed the lower portion of the forest fragment “Mata da Biologia”, the type-locality of the species ( Viçosa , state of Minas Gerais). Here we provide records from other three fragments of the Atlantic Forest, all of which are conservation units in southeast Brazil: “ Mata do Paraíso ” (the whole name being “ Estação de Pesquisa e Treinamento em Educação Ambiental – EPTEA Mata do Paraíso ”), located about 15 Km from the type-locality; “Parque Nacional do Itatiaia”, state of Rio de Janeiro; and “Parque Estadual de Sooretama”, state of Espírito Santo, collected in the same basidiome of F. sooretama . Recently, F. brasiliensis was also found in French Guyana inside a basidiome of Hymenochaete sp. ( SAURAT et al. 2015). It is worth mentioning that the species is not frequently collected, and the new records provided here were the result of an intense collecting effort of fungivorous beetles in Atlantic Forest fragments ( ARAUJO et al. 2015).