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 Sanaungulus according to F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard 2020
Sister taxa: Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus ghitaenoerbyae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kachinensis, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myanmaricus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus perkovskyi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus ruicheni, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum
Type specimen: ALDC0570/ALD.Bu.213, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Damgaard collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Damgaard collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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