Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Macrocerus sucinopenninus

Full reference: A. Kuśka and I. Kania. 2010. New soldier beetles (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 2400:49-56

Belongs to Malthodes according to F. Fanti 2022

See also Fanti 2017, Fanti 2017, Kazantsev 2013 and Kuśka and Kania 2010

Sister taxa: Malthodes (Libertimalthodes), Malthodes (Malthodes), Malthodes aliger, Malthodes andreasiabelei, Malthodes caenozoicus, Malthodes michalskii

Type specimen: DEI 1221-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection

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