Discovery of a new fossil soldier beetle in Eocene Baltic amber, with the establishment of the new tribe Cacomorphocerini

A new fossil soldier beetle (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) of the genus CacomorphocerusSchaufuss, 1892 from Baltic amber

“…The body size of these genera ranges between 5. & kupryjanowicz 2018;BukejS et al 2019;Fanti & pankowSki 2019) while Sucinorhagonycha KuśKa, 1996 is smaller with a size of 4.5 mm (KuśKa 1996;. Cacomorphocerus endecacerus sp.…”

“…Inclusions of fossil Cantharidae in amber are fairly common (Spahr 1981;alekSeev 2013alekSeev , 2017Fanti 2017a) with the first species described by SchauFuSS (1892), and later extinct lineages at the tribal level described by kazantSev (2013) and Fanti & kupryjanowicz (2018). Various taxa of Cantharidae were described from Baltic, Rovno, Mexican (Chiapas) and Burmese amber as well as from the Brunstatt brown coals of Alsace.…”

“…Cantharids from the latter deposits were cataloged, along with detailed references, by Fanti (2017a). Recent new fossils have been described from Baltic amber by Fanti (2017bFanti ( , 2017cFanti ( , 2018Fanti ( , 2019b, Fanti & caStiglione (2017), Fanti & kupryjanowicz (2017Fanti & kupryjanowicz ( , 2018, Fanti & vitali (2017), , Fanti & michalSki (2018), Fanti & m. j. pankowSki (2018), ), kazantSev (2018, BukejS et al (2019), Fanti & Sontag (2019), kupryjanowicz & Fanti (2019), and pariSi & Fanti (2019a, 2019b Fanti & pankowSki 2019). The genus is highly variable, especially regarding the antennal and pronotal shapes.…”

A new soldier beetle of the extinct tribe Cacomorphocerini Fanti & Kupryjanowicz, 2018

“…The genus has been found exclusively as inclusions in Baltic and Rovno ambers from the Eocene (Kazantsev 2013;Kazantsev & Perkovsky 2014;Fanti 2017). It currently consists of seven species (Schaufuss 1892;Kuśka & Kania 2010;Fanti & Kupryjanowicz 2018;Bukejs et al 2019; and the present work). The genus Sucinorhagonycha Kuśka, 1996, which is very close phylogenetically to Cacomorphocerus (Kuśka 1996;Fanti & Pankowski 2018), is known from only two species.…”

New subgenus and three new species of soldier beetles from the Eocene of Baltic amber

“…The number of taxa of Cantharidae preserved in Baltic amber is very high with 51 species described and also some extinct lineages (Fanti, 2017a(Fanti, , 2017bFanti and Damgaard, 2018;Fanti and Kupryjanowicz, 2018), and it seems probable that during the Eocene many more species of the family lived in Northern Europe and the Baltic region than currently inhabit the region. In this paper we describe a new species of Cantharis Lin-2 naeus, 1758, and two new species of Malthodes Kiesenwetter, 1852, one of which is a new subgenus and is currently only known from fossil material.…”