Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Malthodes ceranowiczae

Full reference: A. Kuska and J. Kupryjanowicz. 2005. Soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74:309-316

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

See also Fanti 2017, Kazantsev 2013 and Kuska and Kupryjanowicz 2005

Sister taxa: Malthodes (Malthodes) gedanicus, Malthodes (Malthodes) giannii, Malthodes (Malthodes) greenwalti, Malthodes (Malthodes) henningseni, Malthodes (Malthodes) immortalis, Malthodes (Malthodes) josephi, Malthodes (Malthodes) kotejai, Malthodes (Malthodes) marialuisae, Malthodes (Malthodes) markpankowskii, Malthodes (Malthodes) maximiliani, Malthodes (Malthodes) meriae, Malthodes (Malthodes) moellehavei, Malthodes (Malthodes) neumanni, Malthodes (Malthodes) nublar, Malthodes (Malthodes) obtusus, Malthodes (Malthodes) perkovskyi, Malthodes (Malthodes) rovnoensis, Malthodes (Malthodes) serafini, Malthodes (Malthodes) sucini, Malthodes (Malthodes) tognettii, Malthodes (Malthodes) unimol, Malthodes (Malthodes) vladiceniensis

Type specimen: MZ 24198, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

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

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