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
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-24
4885
1
76
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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.