HUKAWNGICHTHYURUS FANTI & ELLENBERGER 2018

Hsiao, Yun, Li, Yun, Ren, Dong & Pang, Hong, 2021, Morphological phylogenetics provide new insights into the classification and evolution of fossil soldier beetles from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 1271-1293 : 1284

† HUKAWNGICHTHYURUS FANTI & ELLENBERGER 2018

Type species: † Hukawngichthyurus kyawkhaingwini Fanti & Ellenberger, 2018: 202 .

Emended diagnosis (after Fanti & Ellenberger, 2018): Body small-sized (c. 3.0 mm); rostrum small; apical maxillary palpomere with apex straightly-truncated; antennae filiform, with pedicel short, stout and moniliform, central antennomeres (3–6) stout, and the remaining antennomeres filiform, extending to elytral midlength. Pronotum transverse, with large depression on the disc anteriorly. Elytra distinctly shortened, with caudal segments and hindwings largely exposed; disc smooth. Abdomen with caudal segment distinctly furcate, fishtail-shaped.