<documentid="E2E9D2EF0A7D550A03C217E509A6F47C"ID-DOI="10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137"ID-ISSN="0024-4082"ID-ZooBank="9059AA2-5086-46AD-85C6-DBDA56CA72E0"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.metadata_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.treatments_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1734033959621"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Simon-Pražák, Jan, Yamamoto, Shûhei, Lackner, Tomáš, Fikáček, Martin, Prokop, Jakub & Caterino, Michael S"docDate="2024"docId="038C87BE171B81654CACFF6EFB3879DD"docLanguage="en"docName="zlae137.pdf"docOrigin="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (zlae 137) 202 (3)"docSource="https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137"docStyle="DocumentStyle:4F230B9370E98E256D973D6DFB57F36C.9:ZoolJLinnSoc.2023-.journal_article"docStyleId="4F230B9370E98E256D973D6DFB57F36C"docStyleName="ZoolJLinnSoc.2023-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Miculissima Simon-Pražák, Yamamoto, Lackner, Fikáček, Prokop & Caterino, 2024, gen. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="20"masterDocId="FFB5FFC6170881764F58FFA0FFA07B0E"masterDocTitle="A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)"masterLastPageNumber="28"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="20"updateTime="1734536861462"updateUser="guilherme">
<mods:titleid="0C471F1BA2AEC9C8A108E5C9433833C1">A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae)</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="7E9A8B4A0FB6AE571FF9F66C27268255">Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, 12800 Prague 2, Czech Republic & Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, Eliščino nábřeží 465, 500 03 Hradec Králové 3, Czech Republic</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="C13BCCD873604FB16B834FD5AAAE24D3">Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Weinbergstrasse 56, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="1DDFF9D35C2A4A4B40A716028DD73383">Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70, Lienhai Rd., Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan & Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740 CZ- 19300 Praha 9, Czech Republic</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="2C6FFF21018CA4561AD2EAF6E91662FF">Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, 12800 Prague 2, Czech Republic & Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, United States</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="4C254D2B171B81654CACFF6EFBDC7BE7"authorityName="Jan & ºimon-Pražák & Yamamoto & Lackner & Fikáček & Prokop & Michael & Caterino"authorityYear="2024"box="[1012,1148,206,233]"class="Insecta"family="Histeridae"genus="Miculissima"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="19"pageNumber="20"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="genus"status="gen. nov.">
<taxonomicNameid="4C254D2B171B81654CF0FEAFFBD77A29"authorityName="Jan & ºimon-Pražák & Yamamoto & Lackner & Fikáček & Prokop & Michael & Caterino"authorityYear="2024"box="[936,1143,271,295]"class="Insecta"family="Histeridae"genus="Miculissima"kingdom="Animalia"order="Coleoptera"pageId="19"pageNumber="20"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="excavata"status="sp. nov.">Miculissima excavata</taxonomicName>
Tiny body size, body oval-shaped and glabrous. Frons flat, wide, clypeus convex, labrum short and wide, with a pair of prominent setae laterally. Antennal club round with two distinct annuli. Eyes convex. Pronotum widely angular posteriorly, with complete marginal stria and a lateral pronotal stria. Scutellar shield tiny, triangular. Prosternal hypomeron widely excavate and irregularly structured, with a weakly defined antennal cavity. Prosternum with fissures for antennal passage. Prosternal process short, without prosternal lobe, slightly emarginate posteriorly. Tibiae simple, slightly widened, with several spines.
