Cacomorphocerus thomasiwentzeli Wentzel et al. 2022 (soldier beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: D. Wentzel, E. Bonino, and F. Fanti. 2022. A new Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892 (Cantharidae) from Baltic amber. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22:313-318

Belongs to Cacomorphocerus according to D. Wentzel et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Cacomorphocerus bentifabrici, Cacomorphocerus cerambyx, Cacomorphocerus coleae, Cacomorphocerus endecacerus, Cacomorphocerus eocenicus, Cacomorphocerus incurvus, Cacomorphocerus jantaricus, Cacomorphocerus madseni, Cacomorphocerus marki, Cacomorphocerus meridionalis, Cacomorphocerus obstinatus, Cacomorphocerus wiszniewskii

Type specimen: Danuta Wentzel collection 452, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Danuta Wentzel collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Danuta Wentzel collection)

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