Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti and M. G. Pankowski. 2020. Two new species of Cantharis Linnaeus, 1758 from Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4878:401-411

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to F. Fanti and M. G. Pankowski 2020

Sister taxa: Cantharis (Cantharis) attavina, Cantharis (Cantharis) borki, Cantharis (Cantharis) bradburyi, Cantharis (Cantharis) brodiei, Cantharis (Cantharis) caduca, Cantharis (Cantharis) carbonaria, 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) sesermanae, Cantharis (Cantharis) sucinonigra, Cantharis (Cantharis) zabolica

Type specimen: MCZ:Ent:PALE-43614, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (MCZ collection)

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