Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Full reference: S. V. Kazantsev. 2013. New taxa of Baltic amber soldier beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cantharidae) with synonymic and taxonomic notes. Russian Entomological Journal 22:283-291
Belongs to Mimoplatycis according to F. Fanti 2017
See also Fanti 2017, Kazantsev 2013 and Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2014
Sister taxa: Mimoplatycis bicolor, Mimoplatycis marchettii
Type specimen: ZMUC 1-12/1966, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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