Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Parisi and F. Fanti. 2020. Baltic amber: A new Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892 with two specimens preserved in a single piece, and four new Malthodes Kiesenwetter, 1852. Zootaxa 4778:546-560

Belongs to Malthodes (Malthodes) according to F. Parisi and F. Fanti 2020

Sister taxa: Malthodes (Malthodes) camerinii, Malthodes (Malthodes) ceranowiczae, Malthodes (Malthodes) gedanicus, Malthodes (Malthodes) giannii, Malthodes (Malthodes) greenwalti, Malthodes (Malthodes) henningseni, Malthodes (Malthodes) josephi, Malthodes (Malthodes) kotejai, Malthodes (Malthodes) maierae, Malthodes (Malthodes) marialuisae, Malthodes (Malthodes) markpankowskii, Malthodes (Malthodes) maximiliani, Malthodes (Malthodes) meriae, Malthodes (Malthodes) moellehavei, Malthodes (Malthodes) neumanni, Malthodes (Malthodes) nublar, Malthodes (Malthodes) obtusus, Malthodes (Malthodes) perkovskyi, Malthodes (Malthodes) rovnoensis, Malthodes (Malthodes) serafini, Malthodes (Malthodes) sucini, Malthodes (Malthodes) tognettii, Malthodes (Malthodes) unimol, Malthodes (Malthodes) vallombrosa, Malthodes (Malthodes) vladiceniensis

Type specimen: Unimol AAA005FP, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Unimol collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Unimol collection)

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