Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Parent taxon: Cantharidae according to F. Fanti 2025
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Bramanti and Fanti 2022, Bukejs et al. 2019, Cai et al. 2022, Ellenberger and Fanti 2019, Fanti 2017, Fanti 2017, Fanti 2017, Fanti 2021, Fanti 2021, Fanti 2025, Fanti et al. 2018, Fanti and Damgaard 2018, Fanti and Damgaard 2019, Fanti and Damgaard 2020, Fanti and Ellenberger 2016, Fanti and Ellenberger 2018, Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2018, Fanti and Müller 2022, Fanti and Pankowski 2018, Fanti and Pankowski 2020, Fanti and Pankowski 2023, Fanti and Poschmann 2019, Fanti and Vitali 2023, Kazantsev 2013, Kazantsev 2020, Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2020, Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2025, Kuśka and Kania 2010, Kupryjanowicz and Fanti 2019, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Pankowski and Fanti 2023, Parisi and Fanti 2020, Peris and Fanti 2018, Poinar and Fanti 2016, Poinar and Fanti 2019, Qu et al. 2023 and Wentzel et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Chauliognathinae, Cretocantharis, Dysmorphocerinae, Katyacantharis, Malthininae, Myamalycocerus, Ornatomalthinus, Silinae
Subtaxa: Brevipterus Cacomorphocerini Cantharini Cnathrion Podabrini
Type: Cantharis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Pennsylvania)
• Miocene of China (4), Croatia (1), Germany (2)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (6)
• Eocene of Lithuania (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (14), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Colorado)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (12), Spain (1)
Total: 63 collections including 170 occurrences