New species of Baltic amber soldier beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cantharidae)

Abstract

Baltic amber is referred to the Middle Eocene, ca. 40–50 mya [e.g., Gaigalas, Halas, 2009], and can be found along the Baltic Sea coast. The studied specimens come from the Yantarny mine (Kaliningrad Region, Russia). The specimens had been cut and polished, and then examined with a MSP-1 zoom stereoscopic dissecting microscope with ×8–×80 magnification range. Photographs were taken with Canon EOS 70D camera and Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens. The following acronyms are used in the paper: JDC — Jonas Damzen collection (Vilnius, Lithuania); MAIG — Museum of Amber Inclusions (Gdańsk, Poland).