Olexum 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

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e102404
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DB13F9F0-9C34-4CF3-9204-D8EB70A64A8B
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scientific name	Olexum Simon Prazak & Lackner
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Olexum Simon Prazak & Lackner gen. nov.

Type species.

Olexum complanatum Simon Pražák & Lackner, sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Body elongate oval, flattened, dorsally convex. Labrum multisetose. Right mandible apically bidentate. Pronotum and elytra with elongate furrows laterally. Scutellar shield invisible. Propygidium almost entirely covered by elytra. Protibia very broad, with a row of denticles on the outer margin and with a prominent apical spur. All tibiae with tarsal grooves.

Etymology.

We name the genus in honour of Aldo Olexa, an excellent Czech specialist of the Histeridae .