Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti and M. Poschmann. 2019. First soldier beetles (Coleoptera Cantharidae) from the late Oligocene Enspel fossil-Lagerstätte (SW Germany). Palaeoentomology 2:363-371

Belongs to Cantharis (Cantharis) according to F. Fanti and M. Poschmann 2019

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) kviumi, Cantharis (Cantharis) lidiae, Cantharis (Cantharis) macilenta, Cantharis (Cantharis) michaeli, Cantharis (Cantharis) paludosa, Cantharis (Cantharis) raeorum, Cantharis (Cantharis) rottensis, Cantharis (Cantharis) rufa, Cantharis (Cantharis) sucinonigra

Type specimen: NHMM PE 2006/5024-LS, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Enspel, horizon S12, which is in a MP 28 crater lake shale in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Enspel, horizon S12

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