''Priacma'' is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae. It contains a single extant species, '' Priacma serrata'' native to western North America and one fossil species, ''P. megapuncta'' from the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age (geology), age of the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch or the lowest stage (stratigraphy), stage of the Upper Cretace ...

aged

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. Th ...

. Species previously assigned to the genus from the

Yixian Formation The Yixian Formation (; formerly Romanization of Chinese, transcribed as Yihsien Formation or Yixiang Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous. I ...

of China have been subsequently placed in the separate genus '' Apriacma''.

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Cupedidae Archostemata genera Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte {{Cupedidae-stub