A new species of the genus Sucinorhagonycha Kuśka, 1996 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Cantharinae) from late Eocene Rovno amber, with a taxonomic note

• DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.81.7
• Publication Date: 2025-01-28T07:22:42Z
• Authors: Sergey V. Kazantsev; Andrei A. Legalov; Evgeny E. Perkovsky

A new species of soldier beetles of the subfamily Cantharinae, Sucinorhagonycha pugachensis sp. n., from Eocene Rovno amber is described and illustrated. It is the first record of a representative of the genus Sucinorhagonycha Kuśka, 1996 in Rovno amber. The tribe Cacomorphocerini Fanti et Kupryjanowicz, 2018, syn. n. to which the genus was attributed, is synonymized with Cantharini Imhoff, 1856 (1815), as apparently paraphyletic. A checklist and an identification key to Sucinorhagonycha are presented. All of the seven currently known Rovno amber cantharids appear to be endemic and not registered in Baltic amber.