Two new taxa of fossil Cantharidae from Baltic amber

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Fabrizio Fanti
Francesco Vitali


Keywords : paleoentomology, resin, systematic, soldier beetles, Coleoptera
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In this document, two new fossil soldier beetles (family Cantharidae) from the Baltic amber from Yantarny, Kaliningrad Region, Russia are described, illustrated and compared with all known fossil congeners: Cacomorphocerus incurvus sp. nov. and Malthinus (Malthinus) amicitiae sp. nov.

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