Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: J. Kupryjanowicz and F. Fanti. 2019. New subgenus and three new species of soldier beetles from the Eocene of Baltic amber. Palaeontologia Electronica 22(2.22A):1-13

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to J. Kupryjanowicz and F. Fanti 2019

Sister taxa: Cantharis (Cantharis) attavina, Cantharis (Cantharis) borki, Cantharis (Cantharis) bradburyi, Cantharis (Cantharis) brodiei, Cantharis (Cantharis) caduca, Cantharis (Cantharis) carbonaria, Cantharis (Cantharis) crisantha, Cantharis (Cantharis) doernerorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) exauctarata, Cantharis (Cantharis) figurata, Cantharis (Cantharis) fragilis, Cantharis (Cantharis) groehni, Cantharis (Cantharis) hanswerneri, Cantharis (Cantharis) hoffeinsorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) kviumi, Cantharis (Cantharis) lidiae, Cantharis (Cantharis) macilenta, Cantharis (Cantharis) michaeli, Cantharis (Cantharis) navka, Cantharis (Cantharis) paludosa, Cantharis (Cantharis) raeorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) rottensis, Cantharis (Cantharis) rufa, Cantharis (Cantharis) sesermanae, Cantharis (Cantharis) sucinonigra, Cantharis (Cantharis) zabolica

Type specimen: UCP UwB 1679, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (UCP UwB collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (UCP UwB collection)

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