Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Alternative combination: Hoffeinsensia jantarica
Full reference: A. Kuśka and I. Kania. 2010. New soldier beetles (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 2400:49-56
Belongs to Cacomorphocerus according to S. V. Kazantsev 2018
See also Fanti 2017, Fanti 2017, Kazantsev 2013 and Kuśka and Kania 2010
Sister taxa: Cacomorphocerus bentifabrici, Cacomorphocerus cerambyx, Cacomorphocerus coleae, Cacomorphocerus endecacerus, Cacomorphocerus eocenicus, Cacomorphocerus incurvus, Cacomorphocerus madseni, Cacomorphocerus marki, Cacomorphocerus meridionalis, Cacomorphocerus obstinatus, Cacomorphocerus thomasiwentzeli, Cacomorphocerus wiszniewskii
Type specimen: Hoffeins 1221-2, 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:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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