Ommatidae

The status, affinity, scope or nomenclature of this taxon is disputed.

Please see discussion on the talk page.

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