Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard. 2020. Fossil soldier beetles of the Anders Damgaard amber collection. Fourth update. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 20:125-139

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard 2020

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) 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: ALDC0567/ALD.Ba.Can.28, an exoskeleton (body). 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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