Priacma

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Cenomanian|Present}}

| image = Priacma serrata.jpeg

| image_caption = Priacma serrata

| taxon = Priacma

| authority = LeConte, 1874

| type_species = Cupes serrata

| type_species_authority = LeConte, 1861

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• P. serrata (LeConte, 1861)
• †P. megapuncta Li & Cai in Li et al., 2019

}}

Priacma is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae. It contains a single extant species, Priacma serrata native to western North AmericaArnett, R.H., Jr. & M. C. Thomas, eds. American Beetles, Volume 1: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001. p. 20. and one fossil species, P. megapuncta from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber.{{Cite journal|last1=Li|first1=Yan-Da|last2=Liu|first2=Zhen-Hua|last3=Jarzembowski|first3=Edmund A.|last4=Yin|first4=Zi-Wei|last5=Huang|first5=Di-Ying|last6=Cai|first6=Chen-Yang|date=2019|title=Early evolution of Cupedidae revealed by a mid-Cretaceous reticulated beetle from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Archostemata)|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/syen.12355|journal=Systematic Entomology|language=en|volume=44|issue=4|pages=777–786|doi=10.1111/syen.12355|bibcode=2019SysEn..44..777L |s2cid=202852115 |issn=1365-3113}} Species previously assigned to the genus from the Yixian Formation of China{{cite journal|last1=Tan|first1=J.J.|last2=Ren|first2=D.|last3=Shih|first3=C.K.|year=2006|title=First record of fossil Priacma (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Cupedidae) from the Jehol Biota of western Liaoning, China|journal=Zootaxa|volume=1326|pages=55–68|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1326.1.6 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/zt01326p068.pdf}} have been subsequently placed in the separate genus Apriacma.{{Cite journal|last1=Kirejtshuk|first1=A. G.|last2=Nel|first2=A.|last3=Kirejtshuk|first3=P. A.|date=October 2016|title=Taxonomy of the reticulate beetles of the subfamily Cupedinae (Coleoptera, Archostemata), with a review of the historical development|journal=Invertebrate Zoology|volume=13|issue=1|pages=61–190|doi=10.15298/invertzool.13.2.01|issn=1812-9250|doi-access=free}}