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Cantharinae
Temporal range: Albian–Recent
Cantharis fusca (type genus and species)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Cantharidae
Subfamily: Cantharinae
Imhoff, 1856

Cantharinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 200 described species in Cantharinae.[1][2]

Taxonomic note
  • Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship of this subfamily as Imhoff, 1856 (1815).[2]

Tribes and genera

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Two tribes are accepted:

Rhaxonycha carolina

Auth.: Gistel, 1856[3]

Podabrus tricostatus
Stenothemus cou (possibly a synonym of Falsopodabrus)[4]

†Cacomorphocerini

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

Katyacantharis Kazantsev and Perkovsky 2019, Agdzhakend amber, Azerbaijan, Cenomanian

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