Platycretus Simon Prazak & Lackner, 2023

Simon Prazak, Jan, Fikacek, Martin, Prokop, Jakub & Lackner, Tomas, 2023, Under the Cretaceous bark: Fossil evidence for the ancient origin of subcortical lifestyle of clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae), Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 81, pp. 439-453 : 439

Platycretus Simon Prazak & Lackner gen. nov.

Type species.

Platycretus muscularis Simon Pražák & Lackner, sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Body rectangular, flattened, dorsally with large irregular depressions. Labrum asetose, without punctures. Mandibles massive, carinate, outer margin almost perpendicular. Pronotum with a complete marginal pronotal stria, basal fragment of outer lateral stria and incomplete inner lateral stria interrupted at anterior pronotal angles. Prosternal lobe present, massive. Antennal cavity present, partially closed by prosternal alae. Elytra with a complete, deeply impressed marginal elytral stria. Tibiae very broad, without teeth, with denticles along their outer margins. Meso- and metafemora extremely thickened, triangular in cross section.

Etymology.

Name of the genus was chosen to point out its Cretaceous origin and flattened shape.