Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Palaeocantharis panna

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 Elektrokleinia according to F. Fanti 2025

See also Fanti and Müller 2022 and Hsiao et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Elektrokleinia bilineatimaculata, Elektrokleinia oblongoculus, Elektrokleinia picta, Elektrokleinia steffenseni, Elektrokleinia thiloi, Elektrokleinia zahradniki

Type specimen: CNU-COL-MA-0019, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection)

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