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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 2: 29 Apr. 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-04-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.2.2
Page range: 113-116
Abstract views: 69
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Malthinus (s. str.) manukyani sp. nov., first record of the genus from Rovno amber (Coleoptera: Cantharidae)

Insect Centre, Donetskaya 13–326, Moscow 109651, Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Coleoptera Cantharidae

Abstract

The soldier beetle genus Malthinus Latreille, 1805, belonging to the tribe Malthinini (Malthininae), is widely distributed in the Holarctic, also penetrating into the Neotropics and the Oriental Region. Being one of the most species-rich in the family, it comprises over 350 species, the greater part of which, about 300 species, occur in the Palaearctic (Delkeskamp, 1977; Kazantsev & Brancucci, 2007).

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