Cretopseudopsis, Liu & Tihelka & Tian & Huang & Cai, 2020

Liu, Yuchu, Tihelka, Erik, Tian, Li, Huang, Diying & Cai, Chenyang, 2020, First fossil pseudopsine rove beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pseudopsinae), Zootaxa 4885 (1), pp. 76-82 : 77

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:57CA650B-BE35-47FB-92EC-31DB21214BED

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4324291

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C3D7C8B-BB28-4FB3-B8BD-8ABB7900FA8E

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:1C3D7C8B-BB28-4FB3-B8BD-8ABB7900FA8E

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Plazi

scientific name

Cretopseudopsis
status

gen. nov.

Cretopseudopsis View in CoL gen. nov.

Type species. Cretopseudopsis maweii View in CoL sp. nov., by original designation.

Etymology. The generic epithet is a combination of the Latin ‘ creta ’ (=chalk), the root of ‘Cretaceous’, and the genus Pseudopsis , the type genus of the subfamily Pseudopsinae .

Diagnosis. Head not carinate. Apical maxillary palpomere half as wide distally as the penultimate segment at apex. Subocular carinae absent. Temples short, shorter than eye length. Maxillary palpi distinctly elongate, reaching to the base of the fourth antennomere. Lateral margin of pronotum smoothly rounded, not serrate. Protrochantin barely visible. Mesocoxae separated by an elongate process of the mesoventrite. Mesoventrite carinate mid-longitudinally. Posterior margin of elytra sinuate, with lateral portion deeply incised. Abdominal terga without basolateral ridges.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

SubFamily

Pseudopsinae

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