Mimoplatycis notha Kazantsev 2013 (soldier beetle)

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

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