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Cantharidae (soldier beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Taxonomy

Cantharidae was named by Imhoff (1856). It is extant. Its type is Cantharis.

It was assigned to Cantharoidea by Crowson (1981); to Coleoptera by Zhang (1989); and to Elateroidea by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Bouchard et al. (2011), Fanti and Ellenberger (2016), Hsiao et al. (2016), Fanti and Kupryjanowicz (2017), Fanti and Damgaard (2018), Hsiao and Huang (2018), Fanti and Ellenberger (2018), Fanti and Kupryjanowicz (2018), Fanti et al. (2018), Fanti and Poschmann (2019), Fanti and Damgaard (2019), Kupryjanowicz and Fanti (2019), Fanti and Müller (2022), Bramanti and Fanti (2022) and Cai et al. (2022).

Subtaxa

Cantharinae, Chauliognathinae, Cretocantharis, Dysmorphocerinae, Katyacantharis, Malthininae, Myamalycocerus, Ornatomalthinus, Silinae

Synonyms

Telephoridae is a family. It is extant.

It was replaced with Cantharidae by Crowson (1981).
Cantharidiae was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant.

It was replaced with Cantharidae by Bouchard et al. (2011).

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Latreille (1802).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1802	Cantharidiae Latreille p. 185
1856	Cantharidae Imhoff
1981	Cantharidae Crowson p. 696
1989	Cantharidae Zhang p. 422
1995	Cantharidae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2011	Cantharidae Bouchard et al. p. 331
2016	Cantharidae Fanti and Ellenberger p. 166
2016	Cantharidae Hsiao et al. p. 121
2017	Cantharidae Fanti and Kupryjanowicz p. 785
2018	Cantharidae Fanti and Damgaard p. 2
2018	Cantharidae Fanti and Ellenberger p. 202
2018	Cantharidae Fanti and Kupryjanowicz p. 150
2018	Cantharidae Hsiao and Huang p. 258
2019	Cantharidae Fanti and Damgaard p. 102
2019	Cantharidae Fanti and Poschmann p. 364
2019	Cantharidae Kupryjanowicz and Fanti p. 2
2022	Cantharidae Bramanti and Fanti p. 202
2022	Cantharidae Cai et al.
2022	Cantharidae Fanti and Müller p. 332

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Elateriformia	Crowson 1960
superfamily	Elateroidea
family	Cantharidae	Imhoff 1856
family	Cantharidae	Imhoff 1856

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Cantharidae Imhoff 1856 [soldier beetle]

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Subfm. Cantharinae Imhoff 1856

G. †Brevipterus Yang et al. 2022

†Brevipterus acutiapicis Yang et al. 2022

†Brevipterus megacephalus Yang et al. 2022

†Brevipterus obtusiapicis Yang et al. 2022

†Brevipterus strungei Fanti and Damgaard 2019

Tr. †Cacomorphocerini Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2018

G. †Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss 1891

†Cacomorphocerus bentifabrici Fanti and Damgaard 2018

†Cacomorphocerus cerambyx Schaufuss 1891