<p><strong>New Baltic amber soldier beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cantharidae) with some taxonomic notes</strong></p>

Abstract

Five new species of soldier beetles from the subfamilies Cantharinae and Silinae, Lycocerus elzbietae sp. nov., L. jonasi sp. nov., Rhagonycha acarigera sp. nov., Sucinorhagonycha groehni sp. nov. and Podosilis gedaniensis sp. nov., are described from Baltic amber. A female of Electronycha prussica Kazantsev, 2013 is described and illustrated for the first time. Attribution of Podistra (Absidia) kloevedali Fanti &amp; Damgaard, 2018 to the genus Podistra Motschulsky, 1838 and to the subgenus Absidia Mulsant, 1862 is discussed.

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

“…Based on specimens known today, Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892 is a genus that originated, radiated and rapidly went extinct during the Eocene (Bukejs et al 2019). 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).…”

A new species of Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from Baltic amber with a key to known species

“…Together with the genera Sucinocantharis Kuśka and Kania, 2010, Eridanula Fanti and Damgaard, 2018, and Noergaardia Fanti and Damgaard, 2018 belongs to the extinct tribe Cacomorphocerini Fanti and Kupryjanowicz, 2018. This tribe is characterized by 12-19 segmented antennae with strongly modified and saucershaped medial antennomeres (Fanti and Kupryjanowicz, 2018). Based upon their distinctive antennal shapes, members of the tribe have been considered similar to the South American genus Dysmorphocerus Solier, 1849 (composed of four species from Chile) (Delkeskamp, 1939(Delkeskamp, , 1977Constantin, 2008), and were later considered to belong within the subfamily Dysmorphocerinae Brancucci, 1980(Kazantsev, 2013. However, Dysmorphocerinae is known almost completely from the former components of Gondwana (Brancucci, 1980).…”

Three new species of soldier beetles from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)

“…Furthermore, the antennomeres of the two genera are slightly different. Cacomorphocerus possesses "central" antennomeres (III-IX) that are conspicuously saucer-shaped, while Sucinorhagonycha has filiform antennae (Schaufuss 1892;Kuśka 1996;Kubisz 2000, Kuśka & Kania 2010Kazantsev 2013;Fanti 2017a). The central antennomeres of S. samsockorum sp.…”

“…Two species of the genus Rhagonycha have previously been described from inclusions in Baltic amber: R. kryshtofovichi (Yablokov-Khnzorian, 1960) and R. sucinobaltica (Poinar & Fanti, 2016). Rhagonycha kryshtofovichi initially attributed to the genus Malchinus Kiesenwetter, 1863 was then transferred to Rhagonycha by Kazantsev (2013) based on the anteriorly narrowed pronotum, the fourth palpomere securiform and unmodified terminalia. In the genus Rhagonycha males and females possess the same pronotal shape.…”