Olexum Simon Prazak & Lackner, 2023

Simon Prazak, Jan, Fikacek, Martin, Prokop, Jakub & Lackner, Tomas, 2023, Under the Cretaceous bark: Fossil evidence for the ancient origin of subcortical lifestyle of clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae), Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 81, pp. 439-453 : 439

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e102404

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:879AE99E-6987-4A83-B10F-E38BF7D545BF

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DB13F9F0-9C34-4CF3-9204-D8EB70A64A8B

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:DB13F9F0-9C34-4CF3-9204-D8EB70A64A8B

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scientific name

Olexum Simon Prazak & Lackner
status

gen. nov.

Olexum Simon Prazak & Lackner gen. nov.

Type species.

Olexum complanatum Simon Pražák & Lackner, sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Body elongate oval, flattened, dorsally convex. Labrum multisetose. Right mandible apically bidentate. Pronotum and elytra with elongate furrows laterally. Scutellar shield invisible. Propygidium almost entirely covered by elytra. Protibia very broad, with a row of denticles on the outer margin and with a prominent apical spur. All tibiae with tarsal grooves.

Etymology.

We name the genus in honour of Aldo Olexa, an excellent Czech specialist of the Histeridae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

SubFamily

Histerinae