Cantharinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family

Cantharidae The soldier beetles (Cantharidae) are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles. They are cosmopolitan in distribution. One of the first described species has a color pattern reminiscent of the Red coat (British army), red coats of early Bri ...

. There are at least 200 described species in Cantharinae. ;Taxonomic note: *Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship of this subfamily as Imhoff, 1856 (1815).

Tribes and genera

Two

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are accepted:

Cantharini Cantharini is a tribe of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are more than 40 genera and over 500 described species in Cantharini. Genera These 46 genera belong to the tribe Cantharini: * '' Ancistronycha'' Märkel, 1852 * '' Arm ...

* '' Absidiella'' Wittmer, 1972 * '' Ancistronycha'' Märkel, 1852 * '' Atalantycha'' Kazantsev, 2005 * ''

Cantharis ''Cantharis'' is a large genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae with narrow and soft elytra. The poisonous Spanish fly is superficially similar and is associated with the scientific name ''Cantharis vesicatoria''. It is also sometime ...

'' Linnaeus, 1758 * '' Cultellunguis'' McKey-Fender, 1950 * '' Cyrtomoptera'' Motschulsky, 1860 * '' Hemipodistra'' Ganglbauer, 1922 * '' Pacificanthia'' Kazantsev, 2001 * '' Pseudoabsidia'' Wittmer, 1969 * ''

Rhagonycha ''Rhagonycha''von Eschscholtz JF (1830) Nova genera Coleopterorum Faunae Europaeae. ''Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou'' 2(1): 63–66. is a genus of soldier beetle belonging to the family Cantharidae. There are at ...

'' Eschscholtz, 1830 * '' Rhaxonycha'' Motschulsky, 1860 * †'' Burmomiles'' Fanti et al. 2018

Burmese amber Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. The amber is dated to around 100 million years ago, during the latest Albian to earliest Cenomanian ages of the mid-Cretaceous period. The ...

, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Elektrokleinia'' Ellenberger & Fanti, 2019 Burmese amber Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Myamalycocerus'' Fanti and Ellenberger 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian * †'' Molliberus'' Peris and Fanti 2018 Spanish amber, Albian * †'' Ornatomalthinus'' Poinar and Fanti 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian (Subsequently suggested to belong to Silinae) * †'' Sanaungulus'' Fanti et al. 2018 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

Podabrini

Auth.: Gistel, 1856BioLib.cz: tribus Podabrini Gistel, 1856 (retrieved 3 July 2020)
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* '' Asiopodabrus'' Wittmer, 1982 * '' Cephalomalthinus'' Pic, 1921 * '' Dichelotarsus'' Motschulsky, 1859 * '' Falsopodabrus'' Pic, 1927 * '' Fissopodabrus'' Pic, 1927 * '' Hatchiana'' Fender, 1966 * '' Kandyosilis'' Pic, 1929 * '' Micropodabrus'' Pic, 1920 * ''

Podabrus ''Podabrus'' is a genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 110 described species in ''Podabrus'', recorded from Europe, North America and Asia. Many ''Podabrus'' appear to mimic MIMIC, known in capitalized form o ...

'' Westwood, 1838 * '' Stenopodabrus'' Nakane, 1992

†Cacomorphocerini

Auth: Fanti and Kupryjanowicz 2018, all known members originate from the

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aged

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

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†'' Katyacantharis'' Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2019, 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.