Omma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cupedoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Archostemata Superfamilia: Cupedoidea

Familia: Ommatidae
Subfamilia: Ommatinae
Tribus: Ommatini
Genus: Omma
Species: O. stanleyi – (?)†O. aberratum – (?)†O. altajense – †O. ancistrodontum – (?)†O. antennatum – †O. avus – †O. axsmithi – †O. brevipes – †O. davidbatteni – (?)†O. daxishanense – †O. delicatum – (?)†O. elongatum – †O. forte – (?)†O. gobiense – (?)†O. grande – †O. janetae – †O. jurassicum – †O. liassicum – †O. lii – †O. longicolle – †O. manukyani – †O. pilosum – †O. sibiricum – (?)†O. zitteli

Name

Omma Newman, 1839: 303

Type species: Omma stanleyi Newman, 1839, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Procarabus Oppenheim, 1888: 236 [syn.: Ponomarenko, 1971]
- Type species: Procarabus zitteli Oppenheim, 1888, by subsequent designation by Ponomarenko, 1971.
Chalepocarabus Handlirsch, 1906: 546
- Type species: Carabus elongatus Brodie, 1845, by monotypy.
Pyrochroophana Handlirsch, 1906: 542
- Type species: Pyrochroa brevipes Deichmüller, 1886, by monotypy.
Ommamima Ponomarenko, 1964 [syn.: Ponomarenko, 1969: 102]
- Type species: Ommamima pilosum Ponomarenko, 1964, by original designation.
Cionocups Kirejtshuk, 2020 [syn.: Li, Huang & Cai, 2021]
- Type species: Cionocups manukyani Kirejtshuk, 2020, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Handlirsch, A. 1906–1908. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1430 pp. [1906: pp. 1–640, 1907: pp. 641–1120, 1908: pp. 1120–1430]. BHL Reference page.
Li, Y.-D., Huang, D.-Y. & Cai, C.-Y. 2021. New species of Omma Newman from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Archostemata, Ommatidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 68(2): 341–348. DOI: 10.3897/dez.68.74174 . Reference page.
Newman, E. 1839. Supplementary note to the synonymy of Passandra. Annals of Natural History 3: 303–305. BHL.
Oppenheim, P. 1888. Die Insektenwelt des lithographischen Schiefers in Bayern. Palaeontographica 34: 215–247. BHL.
Ponomarenko, A.G. 1964. [New beetles of the family Cupedidae from the Jurassic of Karatau]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1964(2): 49–62. (in Russian).
Ponomarenko, A.G. 1969. Историческое развитие жесткокрылых-архостемат [Historical development of Coleoptera-Archostemata.] Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 125: 1–240. (in Russian). PDF. Reference page.
Ponomarenko, A.G. 1971. [Systematic position of some beetles from the Solenhofen shales of Bavaria]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1971(1): 67–81. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 5(1): 62–75.] [not seen]

Additional references

Escalona, H.E., Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, A. 2020. The extant species of the genus Omma Newman and description of Beutelius gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae: Ommatinae). Zootaxa 4728(4): 547–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.4.11 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Jarzembowski, E.A., Wang, B. & Zheng, D. 2020. An archaic-beetle ‘Jaws’ from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 131(2): 155–159. DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.02.003 . Reference page.
Jarzembowski, E.A., Zheng, D. & Zhao, X. 2022. Is the beetle Omma (Insecta: Coleoptera) a living fossil? In: Chang, S.-C. & Zheng, D. (eds.) Mesozoic biological events and ecosystems in East Asia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 521: 161–169. DOI: 10.1144/SP521-2021-56 . ISBN 9781786205834 (electronic), ISBN 9781786205674 (print). Google Books (Preview). Reference page.
Kirejtshuk, A.G. 2020. Taxonomic Review of Fossil Coleopterous Families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10(2): 73. DOI: 10.3390/geosciences10020073 . Reference page.
Lawrence, J.F. 1999. The Australian Ommatidae (Coleoptera: Archostemata): new species, larva and discussion of relationships. Invertebrate Taxonomy 13(3): 369–390. DOI: 10.1071/IT99008 . Reference page.
Ponomarenko, A.G. 2006. [On the types of Mesozoic archostematan beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera, Archostemata) in the Natural History Museum, London]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2006(1): 86–94. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 40(1): 90–99. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030106010102 . PDF.] Reference page.