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Coslonatus Li & Cai 2021, gen. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Centre for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
- 2. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Centre 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, UK
Description
Genus Coslonatus Li & Cai gen. nov.
Type species. Coslonatus rasnitsyni sp. nov.
Etymology. The generic name is an anagram of “ Lascotonus ”, a genus in Colydiinae. The name is masculine in gender.
Diagnosis. Head dorsally with a pair of longitudinal protuberances. Antennal insertions dorsally located. Antennae 11-segmented, long, almost reach elytral apex; antennomeres 9–11 short, asymmetrical, forming a club. Pronotal disc quadrate, with a pair of longitudinal elevated platforms. Procoxae countersunk, concealed by raised prosternal process. Each elytron with five subtle carinae (including sutural carina). Tarsi 4-4-4; tarsomeres 1–3 combined shorter than tarsomere 4. Abdomen with five free ventrites, separated by deep and broad grooves.
Notes
Published as part of Li, Yan-Da, Huang, Di-Ying & Cai, Chen-Yang, 2021, An aberrant colydiine-like tenebrionoid beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Zopheridae), pp. 614-619 in Palaeoentomology 4 (6) on page 615, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.10, http://zenodo.org/record/5778474
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Li & Cai
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Zopheridae
- Genus
- Coslonatus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coslonatus Li & Cai, 2021