Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Alternative combination: Malthodes serafini
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) ceranowiczae, 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) sucini, Malthodes (Malthodes) tognettii, Malthodes (Malthodes) unimol, Malthodes (Malthodes) vladiceniensis
Type specimen: MP/1/1513/188/01, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, ISEA Krakow collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, ISEA Krakow collection
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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