page_title: Cantharinae
section_title: Cantharini
hierarchical_section_title: Cantharinae / Tribes and Genera / Cantharini
caption_attribution_description: English: Carolina cantharid beetle, Rhaxonycha carolina. Churchville Nature Center, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. https://bugguide.net/node/view/26991
context_page_description: Cantharinae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Cantharidae. There are at least 200 described species in Cantharinae.
  Taxonomic note
  Lawrence and Newton give the authorship of this subfamily as Imhoff, 1856.
context_section_description: Absidiella Wittmer, 1972
  Ancistronycha Märkel, 1852
  Atalantycha Kazantsev, 2005
  Cantharis Linnaeus, 1758
  Cultellunguis McKey-Fender, 1950
  Cyrtomoptera Motschulsky, 1860
  Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922
  Pacificanthia Kazantsev, 2001
  Pseudoabsidia Wittmer, 1969
  Rhagonycha Eschscholtz, 1830
  Rhaxonycha Motschulsky, 1860
caption: Rhaxonycha carolina
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