Cantharis
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| Cantharis fusca mating Kampinos Forest, Poland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cantharidae |
| Subfamily: | Cantharinae |
| Tribe: | Cantharini |
| Genus: | Cantharis Linnaeus, 1758 |
Cantharis is a large genus of soldier beetles in the family Cantharidae with narrow and soft elytra.
The poisonous Spanish fly is superficially similar and is associated with the scientific name Cantharis vesicatoria. It is also sometimes called "cantharis" in the vernacular, but it is actually unrelated to Cantharis and is not a member of the Cantharidae at all. It was classified there erroneously until Johan Christian Fabricius corrected its name in his Systema entomologiae in 1775. He reclassified the Spanish fly in the new genus Lytta as Lytta vesicatoria. It belongs to the family Meloidae.[1]
European species[]
Subgenus Cantharis[]
Cantharis decipiens
Cantharis lateralis
Cantharis pellucida
Cantharis rustica
- Pic, 1924
- Menetriez, 1836
- (Marseul, 1864)
- (Mulsant, 1862)
- Paykull, 1798
- (Marseul, 1864)
- Pic, 1902
- (Pic, 1902)
- (Kiesenwetter, 1852)
- (Marseul, 1864)
- Wittmer, 1971
- (Abeille de Perrin, 1869)
- Gyllenhal, 1808
- Moscardini, 1962
- Wittmer, 1971
- Cantharis cryptica Ashe, 1947
- (Marseul, 1864)
- Sharp, 1867
- Baudi, 1871
- Brullé, 1832
- Delkeskamp, 1939
- Gemminger, 1870
- Baudi, 1871
- (Brullé, 1832)
- Pic 1921
- Fiori 1914
- Cantharis figurata Mannerheim, 1843
- Fallén, 1807
- Kiesenwetter, 1866
- Cantharis fusca Linnaeus, 1758 - type species
- (Mulsant, 1862)
- Heyden, 1883
- Fiori, 1914
- Gene, 1839
- Kiesenwetter, 1866
- Fiori, 1914
- Pic, 1932
- Depoli, 1912
- Cantharis livida Linnaeus, 1758
- Moscardini, 1862
- Moscardini, 1862
- Stierlin, 1889
- Fabricius, 1792
- Pic, 1908
- Cantharis nigra (De Geer, 1774)
- Cantharis nigricans Müller, 1766
- (Laporte de Castelnau, 1840)
- Cantharis obscura Linnaeus, 1758
- (Reiche, 1878)
- (Flach, 1907)
- Gyllenhal, 1808
- Cantharis pallida Goeze, 1777
- Fallén, 1807
- Hicker, 1960
- Kiesenwetter, 1870
- Cantharis pellucida Fabricius, 1792
- Fiori, 1914
- Gene, 1836
- (Marseul, 1864)
- Fabricius, 1781
- Pic, 1906
- (Müller, 1776)
- Mulsant, 1862
- Cantharis rufa Linnaeus, 1758
- Cantharis rustica Fallén, 1807
- Pic, 1907
- Kiesenwetter, 1865
- Pic, 1906
- (Marseul, 1864)
- Faldermann, 1835
- Wittmer, 1935
- Fabricius, 1797
- (Baudi, 1871)
- Kiesenwetter, 1860
Subgenus Cyrtomoptila[]
- Dahlgren, 1974
- Cantharis lateralis Linnaeus, 1758
- Rosenhauer, 1847
See also[]
References and notes[]
- ^ Selander, R. B. (1991). On the nomenclature and classification of Meloidae (Coleoptera). Insecta Mundi 5(2): 65-94.
Further reading[]
- Wittmer W., Kasantsev S. (1997) On the classification of the genus Cantharis Linné (Coleoptera, Cantharidae). 20: 367–372.
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