Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti and L. J. Walker. 2019. Fossil soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) of the Georg Statz Collection from the Oligocene Rott Formation, Germany. Palaeoentomology 2(5):491-504

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to F. Fanti and L. J. Walker 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) dougi, Cantharis (Cantharis) exauctarata, Cantharis (Cantharis) figurata, Cantharis (Cantharis) fragilis, 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) rufa, Cantharis (Cantharis) sesermanae, Cantharis (Cantharis) sucinonigra, Cantharis (Cantharis) zabolica

Type specimen: LACMIP 2533.3440, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Statz Collection)

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