Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Cantharis sucinonigra

Full reference: A. Kuska. 1992. Three new species of beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae, Anobiidae, Curculionidae) from the Baltic amber. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology 3:107-113

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to F. Fanti 2017

See also Fanti 2017, Kazantsev 2013 and Kuska 1992

Sister taxa: Cantharis (Cantharis) attavina, Cantharis (Cantharis) borki, Cantharis (Cantharis) bradburyi, Cantharis (Cantharis) brodiei, Cantharis (Cantharis) caduca, Cantharis (Cantharis) carbonaria, Cantharis (Cantharis) crisantha, Cantharis (Cantharis) doernerorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) dougi, Cantharis (Cantharis) exauctarata, Cantharis (Cantharis) figurata, Cantharis (Cantharis) fragilis, Cantharis (Cantharis) hanswerneri, Cantharis (Cantharis) hoffeinsorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) kviumi, Cantharis (Cantharis) lidiae, Cantharis (Cantharis) macilenta, Cantharis (Cantharis) michaeli, Cantharis (Cantharis) paludosa, Cantharis (Cantharis) raeorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) rottensis, Cantharis (Cantharis) rufa, Cantharis (Cantharis) zabolica

Type specimen: MZ 18094, an exoskeleton

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection) (Eocene of Poland)

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