Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Full reference: F. Fanti and P. Müller. 2025. Fossil Cantharidae of the Patrick Müller collection from Baltic, Burmese and Chiapas amber, with taxonomic revision of the genus Brevipterus. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 25:85-122
Belongs to Brevipterus according to F. Fanti and P. Müller 2025
Sister taxa: Brevipterus acutiapicis, Brevipterus brachypterus, Brevipterus dimidiatus, Brevipterus megacephalus, Brevipterus obtusiapicis
Type specimen: SNHMB.G 8128, 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)
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