Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Full reference: F. Fanti and M. K. Pankowski. 2019. A new soldier beetle of the extinct tribe Cacomorphocerini Fanti & Kupryjanowicz, 2018. Zootaxa 4651:589-595
Belongs to Cacomorphocerus according to F. Fanti and M. K. Pankowski 2019
Sister taxa: Cacomorphocerus bentifabrici, Cacomorphocerus cerambyx, Cacomorphocerus endecacerus, Cacomorphocerus eocenicus, Cacomorphocerus incurvus, Cacomorphocerus jantaricus, Cacomorphocerus madseni, Cacomorphocerus marki, Cacomorphocerus meridionalis, Cacomorphocerus obstinatus, Cacomorphocerus thomasiwentzeli, Cacomorphocerus wiszniewskii
Type specimen: USNM PAL 706454, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (USNM collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (USNM collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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