Cantharidae

Cantharis fusca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elateroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Elateriformia Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Cantharidae
Subfamiliae: Cantharinae – Chauliognathinae – Dysmorphocerinae – Malthininae – Silinae

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Genera overview: †Elektrokleinia – Falsopodabrus – Fissocantharis – †Katyacantharis – Kuskaella – Laemoglyptus – Lycocerus – Malthinellus – Ornatomalthinus – Paramaronius – Pseudopodabrus – Stenothemus – Sucinorhagonycha – ...

Name

Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856 (1815)

Synonyms

• Telephoridae Leach, 1815

References

Additional references

• Brancucci, M. 1980: Morphologie comparée, évolution et systématique des Cantharidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Entomologia Basiliensia, 5: 215–388.
• Ellenberger, S. & Fanti, F. 2019. New Cretaceous soldier beetle (Cantharidae) from Burmese amber with preserved coloration on the elytra. Zootaxa 4609(3): 594–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.3.13 Reference page. 
• Fanti, F. 2017. World catalog of fossil Cantharidae. Fossils & Minerals Review 2 (Special Issue): 1–52. ResearchGate .
• Fanti, F. 2018. Sanaungulus ruicheni (Hsiao & Huang, 2018) n. comb. with the differential diagnosis of genera Sanaungulus Fanti, Damgaard & Ellenberger, 2018 and Ornatomalthinus Poinar & Fanti, 2016. Zootaxa 4514(3): 449–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.11 Reference page. 
• Fanti, F. & Ghahari, H. 2016. A checklist of the soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Cantharidae) of Iran. Zootaxa 4196(4): 529–551. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.4. Reference page. 
• Fanti, F. & Pankowski, M.K. 2018. Three new species of soldier beetles from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Cantharidae). Zootaxa 4455(3): 513–524. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.3.7 PDF Reference page. 
• Kuśka, A. & Kania, I. 2010. New soldier beetles (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 2400: 49–56. Preview. Reference page. 
• Lawrence, J.F.; Beutel, R.G.; Leschen, R.A.B.; Ślipiński, A. 2010: 1. Changes in classification and list of families and subfamilies. Pp. 1-7 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755
• Li, L-M., Su, J-Y., Yang, Y-X. & Bai, M. 2016. A new species of Falsopodabrus Pic characterized with geometric morphometrics (Coleoptera, Cantharidae). ZooKeys 614: 97–112. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.614.6156. Reference page. 
• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2007 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4: Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-67-6, p. 234
• Ramsdale, A.S. 2010: 4.17. Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856. Pp. 153-162 in: Leschen, R.A.B.; Beutel, R.G.; Lawrence, J.F. (volume eds.) Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). In: Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (eds.) Handbook of zoology. A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. Part 38. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110190753 ISBN 9783110190755 DOI: 10.1515/9783110911213.153
• Takahashi, N. 2018. A new soldier beetle Malthinellus exiguus sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from the Ryukyus in southwestern Japan, with a key to Japanese species. Zootaxa 4403(2): 395–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.2.11 Reference page. 

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Cantharidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD

Vernacular names

• dansk: Blødvinger
• Deutsch: Weichkäfer
• English: Soldier beetle
• suomi: Sylkikuoriaiset
• français: Cantharide
• עברית: קנתריתיים
• magyar: Lágybogarak
• 한국어: 병대벌레과
• lietuvių: Minkštavabaliai
• norsk: Bløtvinger
• polski: Omomiłkowate
• русский: Мягкотелки
• svenska: Flugbaggar

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