Updated catalog of world fossil Cantharidae, with description of two new species, plus taxonomic information
An updated catalogue of the world’s fossil Cantharidae is provided and some taxonomic acts are proposed: Poinarelektronmiles Fanti & Damgaard, 2020 bonum genus; Poinarelektronmiles ellenbergeri Fanti & Damgaard, 2020 comb. rest.; Poinarelektronmiles cuaroni Bramanti & Fanti, 2022 comb. rest.; Sanaungulus lethi Fanti & Damgaard, 2020 comb. rest.; Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi Fanti & P. Müller, 2022 comb. rest.; Sanaungulus kachinensis Fanti & P. Müller, 2022 comb. rest.; Trapezioceps longelytrus Kundrata, Packova, Li, Hsiao, Shaw, Ferreira, Bai & Cai, 2023 unjustified emendation; Sanaungulus angustipennis (Y. Yang, W. Zhao & H. Liu, 2024b) comb. nov.; Burmomiles angustipennis Y. Yang, W. Zhao & H. Liu, 2024a unavailable name; Sanaungulus dentatus (Y. Yang, W. Zhao & H. Liu, 2024b) comb. nov.; Burmomiles dentatus Y. Yang, W. Zhao & H. Liu, 2024a unavailable name; Sanaungulus recticollis (Y. Yang, W. Zhao & H. Liu, 2024b) comb. nov.; Sanaungulus ruficollis Y. Yang, H. Liu & W. Zhao, 2022 inappropiate name; Sanaungulus strungei Fanti & Damgaard, 2019 comb. rest. returns to the genus Sanaungulus as in the original description; Sanaungulus undecimus Y. Yang, W. Zhao & H. Liu, 2024a incertae sedis because it is clearly not a Sanaungulus. Additional taxonomic information is also presented, and two new species: Mimoplatycis usa sp. nov. from Eocene Rovno amber, and Electronycha arturmichalskii sp. nov. from Baltic amber are illustrated and described.
Authors
- Fabrizio Fanti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2002-108X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Historia naturalis bulgarica
- Published
- 2025-05-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48027/hnb.47.053
- Primary Topic
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00