Placatister, Jan & ºimon-Pražák & Yamamoto & Lackner & Fikáček & Prokop & Michael & Caterino, 2024

Simon-Pražák, Jan, Yamamoto, Shûhei, Lackner, Tomáš, Fikáček, Martin, Prokop, Jakub & Caterino, Michael S, 2024, A bonanza of Cretaceous fossils provides insights into the evolution of antennal protection in clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (zlae 137) 202 (3), pp. 1-28 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae137
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9059AA2-5086-46AD-85C6-DBDA56CA72E0
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14424573
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038C87BE-1719-8167-4CA4-FF1FFC0E7929
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Placatister
status	gen. nov.

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Placatister gen. nov.

Type species. Placatister cascus sp. nov..

Diagnosis: Round and flat body shape. Head with a complete frontal stria. Antennomeres short and wide, antennae dorsoventrally flattened. Antennal club segmented. Antennal cavities occluded. Prosternal process with a pair of setose foveae in apical part and with concave sides. Legs narrow and smooth.

Etymology: Masculine, derived from the Czech word ‘placatý’ meaning flat.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Histeridae
SubFamily	Onthophilinae

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