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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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