Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Burmomiles kachinensis

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 Sanaungulus according to F. Fanti 2025

See also Fanti and Müller 2022 and Yang et al. 2024

Sister taxa: Sanaungulus angustipennis, Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dentatus, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus elongaticollis, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus ghitaenoerbyae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus lethi, Sanaungulus longicornis, Sanaungulus marginalis, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myanmaricus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus perkovskyi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus recticollis, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus ruicheni, Sanaungulus strungei, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum

Type specimen: SNSB-BSPG 2021 XII 14, 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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