Cantharinae

Cantharinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 200 described species in Cantharinae.

• Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship of this subfamily as Imhoff, 1856 (1815).

Tribes and genera

Two tribes are accepted:

Cantharini

• Absidiella <small>Wittmer, 1972</small>
• Ancistronycha <small>Märkel, 1852</small>
• Atalantycha <small>Kazantsev, 2005</small>
• Cantharis <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
• Cultellunguis <small>McKey-Fender, 1950</small>
• Cyrtomoptera <small>Motschulsky, 1860</small>
• Hemipodistra <small>Ganglbauer, 1922</small>
• Pacificanthia <small>Kazantsev, 2001</small>
• Pseudoabsidia <small>Wittmer, 1969</small>
• Rhagonycha <small>Eschscholtz, 1830</small>
• Rhaxonycha <small>Motschulsky, 1860</small>
• †Burmomiles <small>Fanti et al. 2018</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Elektrokleinia <small>Ellenberger & Fanti, 2019</small> Burmese amber Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Myamalycocerus <small>Fanti and Ellenberger 2016</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
• †Molliberus <small>Peris and Fanti 2018</small> Spanish amber, Albian
• †Ornatomalthinus <small>Poinar and Fanti 2016</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian (Subsequently suggested to belong to Silinae)
• †Sanaungulus <small>Fanti et al. 2018</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

Podabrini

Auth.: Gistel, 1856

• Asiopodabrus <small>Wittmer, 1982</small>
• Cephalomalthinus <small>Pic, 1921</small>
• Dichelotarsus <small>Motschulsky, 1859</small>
• Falsopodabrus <small>Pic, 1927</small>
• Fissopodabrus <small>Pic, 1927</small>
• Hatchiana <small>Fender, 1966</small>
• Kandyosilis <small>Pic, 1929</small>
• Micropodabrus <small>Pic, 1920</small>
• Podabrus <small>Westwood, 1838</small>
• Stenopodabrus <small>Nakane, 1992</small>

†Cacomorphocerini

Auth: Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2018, all known members originate from the Eocene aged Baltic amber

• †Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss 1891
• †Eridanula Fanti and Damgaard 2018
• †Noergaardia Fanti and Damgaard 2018
• †Sucinocantharis Kuśka and Kania 2010
• †Sucinorhagonycha Kuska 1996

Incertae sedis

†Katyacantharis <small>Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2019</small>, Agdzhakend amber, Azerbaijan, Cenomanian

References

• Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys, vol. 88, 1–972.
• Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.
• Ramsdale, Alistair S. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 64. Cantharidae". American Beetles, volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 202–218.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Cantharinae
• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.