Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti, A. L. Damgaard, and S. Ellenberger. 2018. Two new genera of Cantharidae from Burmese amber of the Hukawng Valley (Insecta, Coleoptera). Cretaceous Research 86:170-177

Belongs to Sanaungulus according to Y. X. Yang et al. 2022

See also Fanti 2018 and Fanti et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kachinensis, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus lethi, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myanmaricus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus perkovskyi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus ruicheni, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum

Type specimen: ZMUC . ALDC0462/ALD.Bu.202, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (ZMUC coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (ZMUC coll)

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