Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Rhagonycha sucinobaltica

Full reference: G. Poinar and F. Fanti. 2016. New fossil soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) in Burmese, Baltic and Dominican amber. Palaeodiversity 9:1-7

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

See also Fanti 2017 and Poinar and Fanti 2016

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

Type specimen: Poinar C-202, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Poinar collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Poinar collection

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