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 Sanaungulus according to F. Fanti and P. Müller 2022
Sister taxa: Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus ghitaenoerbyae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kachinensis, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus lethi, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus perkovskyi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus ruicheni, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum
Type specimen: SNHM-6009, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SNHM Braunschweig collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SNHM Braunschweig collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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