Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Invalid subtaxa: Cantharidiae Latreille 1802 [replaced name], Telephoridae [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Elateroidea according to F. Fanti and P. Müller 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Bramanti and Fanti 2022, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Fanti et al. 2018, Fanti and Damgaard 2018, Fanti and Damgaard 2019, Fanti and Ellenberger 2016, Fanti and Ellenberger 2018, Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2017, Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2018, Fanti and Poschmann 2019, Hsiao and Huang 2018, Hsiao et al. 2016, Kupryjanowicz and Fanti 2019, Latreille 1802, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: Anoeuma, Artematopodidae, Berendtimiridae, Brachypsectridae, Cerophytidae, Cretophengodidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Eudicronychinae, Grammocolous, Lampyridae, Lycidae, Microcoleus, Mysteriomorphidae, Omethidae, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae, Throscidae
Subtaxa: Cantharinae Chauliognathinae Cretocantharis Dysmorphocerinae Katyacantharis Malthininae Myamalycocerus Ornatomalthinus Silinae
Type: Cantharis
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