''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
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 140 described species recorded from Europe, North America and Japan, and thought to date from the Upper
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...
to recent periods.
[BioLib.cz: genus ''Rhagonycha'' Eschscholtz, 1830 (retrieved 27 June 2020)]
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Subgenera and notable species
''BioLib''[ lists two subgenera:
* subgenus ''Rhagonycha'' Eschscholtz, 1830
** '' Rhagonycha fulva'' (Scopoli, 1763) - the common red soldier beetle is the type species (as '' Cantharis fulva'' Scopoli, 1763, misidentified as ''C. melanura'' L., 1758)
** '' Rhagonycha testacea'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
** List of other ''Rhagonycha'' species
* subgenus ''Ussurycha'' Kazantsev, 1995 (monotypic)
** '' Rhagonycha kazantsevi'' Svihla, 1995
Rhagonycha recta.jpg, ''Rhagonycha recta''
Rhagonycha.testacea.-.lindsey.jpg, ''Rhagonycha testacea''
]
References
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Beetles of Europe
Cantharidae
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