Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Full reference: F. Fanti and P. Müller. 2022. Fossil Cantharidae from the Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber of the Patrick Müller collection, and taxonomic information. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22:331-380

Belongs to Hukawngichthyurus according to F. Fanti 2025

See also Fanti and Müller 2022

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

Type specimen: SNSB-BSPG 2021 XII 19, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SNSB-BSPG collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SNSB-BSPG collection)

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