Abstract
Cantharidae, or soldier-beetles, have so far been described from only two Cretaceous amber deposits. One genus and one species was reported from Spanish amber (El Soplao: Peris & Fanti, 2018) and six genera and seven species from Burmese amber (Hukawng Valley: Poinar & Fanti, 2016; Hsiao et al., 2017; Fanti & Ellenberger, 2017; 2018; Fanti at al., 2018). Other Cretaceous ambers, except for Lebanese amber (Kirejtshuk & Azar, 2013) seemed to lack soldier-beetles (Rasnitsyn et al., 2016).
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