''Anthia cavernosa'' is a species of

ground beetle Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it ...

in the subfamily

Anthiinae Anthias are members of the family Anthiadidae in the order Perciformes. The group has also been called Anthiidae or Anthiinae, but these names are preoccupied by a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae erected by Bonelli in 1813 ...

. It was described by

Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker (30 August 1828 – 20 June 1895) was a German zoologist, entomologist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Berlin and afterwards the University of Greifswald. Biography Gerstaecker wa ...

in 1866.

References

Anthiinae (beetle) Beetles described in 1866 Taxa named by Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker {{AnthiinaeBeetle-stub