Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard. 2019. New soldier beetles (Cantharidae) from Baltic, Burmese and Dominican ambers of the Anders Damgaard amber collection. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 19:101-125

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard 2019

Sister taxa: Cantharis (Cantharis) attavina, 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) paludosa, Cantharis (Cantharis) raeorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) rottensis, Cantharis (Cantharis) rufa, Cantharis (Cantharis) sucinonigra, Cantharis (Cantharis) zabolica

Type specimen: ALDC0534/ALD.Ba.Can.26, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Damgaard collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (Damgaard collection)

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