Published June 29, 2021 | Version v1
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Zaiwa LYUBARSKY & TIHELKA & CAI & PERKOVSKY 2021, gen. nov.

Description

Zaiwa gen. nov.

Type species. Zaiwa pankowskiorum sp. nov.

Etymology. Zaiwa is one of the Kachin languages.

Diagnosis. Body rather small, narrowly oval, dorsoventrally compressed. Frontoclypeal suture present. Antenna 10-segmented with a 3-segmented club, antennomeres 8–9 about equal in length, apical antennomere more than twice longer than the previous two combined. Apical segment of maxillary palps suboval, width at apex approximately half the maximum length of palpomere length. Pronotal surface without distinct tufts of setae. Lateral pronotal margins narrowly explanate, slightly crenulate. Procoxae strongly transverse, narrowly separated by elongate prosternal process. Mesocoxae narrowly separated. Tarsal formula 5- 5-5, tarsomeres simple. Elytra regularly punctate, without raised carinae or pronounced grooves.

Notes

Published as part of LYUBARSKY, GEORGY YU., TIHELKA, ERIK, CAI, CHEN-YANG & PERKOVSKY, EVGENY E., 2021, Zaiwa: A new genus of the family Lophocateridae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea), pp. 218-222 in Palaeoentomology 4 (3) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5507877

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Trogossitidae
Genus
Zaiwa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
LYUBARSKY & TIHELKA & CAI & PERKOVSKY
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Zaiwa LYUBARSKY, TIHELKA, CAI & PERKOVSKY, 2021