First fossil pseudopsine rove beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pseudopsinae) Author Liu, Yuchu State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China & These authors contributed equally & iuyuchusherry @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0664 - 825 X Author Tihelka, Erik School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS 8 1 TQ, United Kingdom & These authors contributed equally & wn 20250 @ bristol. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5048 - 5355 Author Tian, Li State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China & tianlibgeg @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3005 - 2007 Author Huang, Diying State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China & dyhuang @ nigpas. ac. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5637 - 4867 Author Cai, Chenyang State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China & School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS 8 1 TQ, United Kingdom text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-24 4885 1 76 82 journal article 9481 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.1.4 91cebe45-ac50-48a5-a425-b0beda2a2fb6 1175-5326 4296397 57CA650B-BE35-47FB-92EC-31DB21214BED Cretopseudopsis gen. nov. Type species. Cretopseudopsis maweii 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.