Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Rhagonycha micans

Full reference: L. Piton. 1939. Note Complémentaire sur les insectes fossiles des Cinérites Pliocènes du Lac Chambon (Puy-de-Dôme). Revue des Sciences Naturelles d'Auvergne (N. S.) 5:102-108

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

See also Fanti 2017 and Piton 1939

Sister taxa: Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) carolynae, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) germari, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) hesperus, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) kryshtofovichi, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) maryae, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) nielsenae, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) sucinobaltica, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) tertiaria, Rhagonycha (Rhagonycha) ultramundana

Type specimen: Col Piton 1023, an elytra. Its type locality is Lac Chambon (Piton coll), which is in a Gelasian crater lake diatomite/volcaniclastic in France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lac Chambon (Piton coll)

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