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Cantharinae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Taxonomy

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

It was assigned to Cantharidae by Lawrence and Newton (1995), Kuśka and Kania (2010), Bouchard et al. (2011), Kazantsev (2013), Fanti and Ellenberger (2016), Poinar and Fanti (2016), Fanti (2017), Fanti (2017), Fanti (2017), Fanti and Damgaard (2018), Fanti and Ellenberger (2018), Fanti and Pankowski (2018), Peris and Fanti (2018), Fanti and Kupryjanowicz (2018), Fanti et al. (2018), Fanti and Poschmann (2019), Fanti and Damgaard (2019), Poinar and Fanti (2019), Ellenberger and Fanti (2019), Bukejs et al. (2019), Kupryjanowicz and Fanti (2019), Parisi and Fanti (2020), Fanti and Damgaard (2020), Fanti and Pankowski (2020), Kazantsev (2020), Kazantsev and Perkovsky (2020), Fanti (2021), Fanti (2021), Fanti and Müller (2022), Wentzel et al. (2022), Bramanti and Fanti (2022), Cai et al. (2022), Fanti and Vitali (2023), Fanti and Pankowski (2023), Qu et al. (2023) and Pankowski and Fanti (2023).

Subtaxa

Brevipterus, Cacomorphocerini, Cantharini, Cnathrion, Podabrini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1856	Cantharinae Imhoff
1995	Cantharinae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2010	Cantharinae Kuśka and Kania p. 50
2011	Cantharinae Bouchard et al. p. 330
2013	Cantharinae Kazantsev p. 290
2016	Cantharinae Fanti and Ellenberger p. 166
2016	Cantharinae Poinar and Fanti p. 2
2017	Cantharinae Fanti p. 2
2018	Cantharinae Fanti and Damgaard p. 2
2018	Cantharinae Fanti and Ellenberger p. 202
2018	Cantharinae Fanti and Kupryjanowicz p. 150
2018	Cantharinae Fanti and Pankowski p. 514
2018	Cantharinae Peris and Fanti p. 264
2019	Cantharinae Bukejs et al. p. 2
2019	Cantharinae Ellenberger and Fanti p. 595
2019	Cantharinae Fanti and Damgaard p. 102
2019	Cantharinae Fanti and Poschmann p. 364
2019	Cantharinae Kupryjanowicz and Fanti p. 2
2019	Cantharinae Poinar and Fanti p. 99
2020	Cantharinae Fanti and Damgaard p. 126
2020	Cantharinae Fanti and Pankowski p. 402
2020	Cantharinae Kazantsev p. 260
2020	Cantharinae Kazantsev and Perkovsky p. 396
2020	Cantharinae Parisi and Fanti p. 547
2021	Cantharinae Fanti p. 2
2022	Cantharinae Bramanti and Fanti p. 202
2022	Cantharinae Cai et al.
2022	Cantharinae Fanti and Müller p. 332
2022	Cantharinae Wentzel et al. p. 314
2023	Cantharinae Fanti and Pankowski p. 294
2023	Cantharinae Fanti and Vitali p. 234
2023	Cantharinae Pankowski and Fanti p. 301
2023	Cantharinae Qu et al. p. 4

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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
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923

Rank	Name	Author
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Elateriformia	Crowson 1960
superfamily	Elateroidea
family	Cantharidae	Imhoff 1856
subfamily	Cantharinae	Imhoff 1856
subfamily	Cantharinae	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.

Subfm. Cantharinae Imhoff 1856

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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

†Cacomorphocerus coleae Fanti and Pankowski 2019