Cretanapleus 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

Cretanapleus Simon Prazak & Lackner gen. nov.

Type species.

Cretanapleus seideli Simon Pražák & Lackner, sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Body regularly round, convex with lateral and anterior margins strongly emarginated. Head with a carinate frontal stria. Closed antennal cavity located next to procoxae. Elytra strongly truncate apically, elytral epipleuron with two prominent costae on basal half. Protarsal groove with distinctly elevated margins. Outer protibial margin simple, without teeth or denticles, with a row of simple setae.

Etymology.

The name consists of the prefix cret - referring to the Cretaceous origin of the species, and Anapleus , i.e. the extant genus to which the new genus is similar.