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 Y. Yang et al. 2024

See also Fanti and Müller 2022

Sister taxa: Sanaungulus ambosae, Sanaungulus angustipennis, Sanaungulus beeralissae, Sanaungulus beerleniae, Sanaungulus beernalae, Sanaungulus beernilsi, Sanaungulus beerthiloi, Sanaungulus birmanicus, Sanaungulus burgardi, Sanaungulus carloi, Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dentatus, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus elfriedeae, Sanaungulus elongaticollis, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus feliciaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus fossilis, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus ghitaenoerbyae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kachinensis, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus lethi, Sanaungulus longicornis, Sanaungulus marginalis, Sanaungulus massaronei, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myanmaricus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus recticollis, Sanaungulus rosaemariae, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus ruicheni, Sanaungulus strungei, Sanaungulus sucinus, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum

Type specimen: SNSB-BSPG 2021 XII 69, 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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