Ommatidae

Omma stanleyi

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 (3): †Brochocoleinae – Ommatinae – Tetraphalerinae

Genera incertae sedis: †Rhopalomma

Overview of genera

Beutelius – Omma – Tetraphalerus – †Allophalerus – †Asiania – †Blapsium – †Brochocoleus – †Bukhkalius – †Burmocoleus – †Cionocoleus – †Cionocups – †Clessidromma – †Diluticupes – †Jarzembowskiops – †Kirejtomma – †Lepidomma – †Liassocupes – †Limnomma – †Lithocupes – †Miniomma – †Monticupes – †Odontomma – †Paraodontomma – †Pareuryomma – †Polyakius – †Rhopalomma – †Stegocoleus – †Tetraphalerites

Excluded from family by Kirejtshuk (2020): †Fuscicupes

Excluded from family by Li et al. (2023): †Eurydictyon – †Notocupes – †Notocupoides – †Rhabdocupes – †Zygadenia

Name

Ommatidae Sharp & Muir, 1912

Synonymy

• Ommadidae Sharp & Muir, 1912: 521
• Ommadinae: Crowson, 1962
• Ommatinae: Ponomarenko, 1966
• Ommatidae: Crowson, 1976

References

Primary references

• Crowson, R.A. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 13) 5(51): 147–157. DOI: 10.1080/00222936208651227 . Reference page. 
• Sharp, D. & Muir, F. 1912. The comparative anatomy of the male genital tube in Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1912(3): 477–642. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ashman, L.G., Oberprieler, R.G. & Ślipiński, A. 2015. Rhopalomma stefaniae gen. et sp. n., the first ommatid beetle from the Upper Jurassic in Australia (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae). Zootaxa 3980(1): 136–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.1.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Hangay, G.; Zborowski, P. 2010: A guide to the beetles of Australia. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood VIC, Australia. ISBN 9780643094871 ISBN 0643094873
• 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.  [as Ommatinae]
• Lawrence, J.F. 1991: Ommatidae (Archostemata) (=Ommadidae, including Tetraphaleridae). P. 298 in: Lawrence, J.F. (coordinator) 1991: Order Coleoptera, in: Stehr, F.W. (ed.) Immature insects, 2 . Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Iowa, USA. ISBN 0-8403-4639-5
• 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. 
• Lee, S.B., Nam, G.S., Park, J.K., Lee, B.H. & Li, Y.-D. 2023. Cretaceous beetles of the Jinju Formation (Coleoptera): Archostemata. Palaeoentomology 6(5): 496–506. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.5.8 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Li, Y.-D. & Cai, C.-Y. 2021. Revisiting the morphology of the Cretaceous ommatid beetle Clessidromma palmeri (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 61: e20216195. DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.95 . Reference page. 
• Li, Y.-D., Tihelka, E., Pang, H., Huang, D.-Y. & Cai, C.-Y. 2021. Limnomma, a new genus of Ommatidae from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds (Coleoptera, Archostemata). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 68(2): 299-308. DOI: 10.3897/dez.68.71880 . Reference page. 
• Li, Y.-D., Yamamoto, S., Huang, D.-Y. & Cai, C.-Y. 2020. A miniaturized ommatid beetle in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60: e20206063. DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.63 . Reference page. 
• Li, Y.-D., Tihelka, E., Yamamoto, S., Newton, A.F., Xia, F.-Y., Liu, Y., Huang, D.-Y. & Cai, C.-Y. 2023. Mesozoic Notocupes revealed as the sister group of Cupedidae (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1015627. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1015627 . Reference page.  [Notocupes excluded from Ommatidae; Eurydictyon, Notocupes, Notocupoides and Rhabdocupes temporarily left in Archostemata without familial attribution]
• Tan, J. & Ren, D. 2009. 中国中生代原鞘亚目甲虫化石 [Mesozoic Archostematan Fauna from China]. Science Press, Beijing, 347 pp. ISBN 978-7-03-024607-3. Reference page. 
• Tan, J., Wang, Y., Ren, D. & Yang, X. 2012. New fossil species of ommatids (Coleoptera: Archostemata) from the Middle Mesozoic of China illuminating the phylogeny of Ommatidae. BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 113. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-113 . Reference page. 

Links

• Ommatidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Tree of Life Web Project. 1995. Ommatidae. Version 01 January 1995 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• EoL

Vernacular names

中文: 眼甲科

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