Miculissima, 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 : 20

Miculissima gen. nov.

Type species. Miculissima excavata sp. nov..

Diagnosis: 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.

Etymology: Feminine, derived from the Latin noun ‘mica’ which translates as crumb, grain or morsel.