Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: Y. Hsiao, Y. Li, D. Ren and H. Pang. 2021. Morphological phylogenetics provide new insights into the classification and evolution of fossil soldier beetles from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193:1271-1293

Belongs to Hukawngichthyurus according to F. Fanti 2025

See also Hsiao et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Hukawngichthyurus barsevskisi, Hukawngichthyurus ditaddeoi, Hukawngichthyurus kyawkhaingwini, Hukawngichthyurus monstruosus

Type specimen: YL-COL00001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Sun Yat-sen University collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Sun Yat-sen University collection)

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