Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae

Full reference: R. A. Crowson. 1962. Observations on the beetle family Cupedidae, with descriptions of two new fossil forms and a key to the recent genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 5:147-157

Parent taxon: Ommatinae according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also Ponomarenko 2006 and Tan et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Allophalerus, Blapsium, Brochocoleus, Burmocoleus, Cionocoleus, Clessidrommatini, Diluticupes, Echinocups, Eurydictyon, Jarzembowskiops, Liassocupes, Lithocupedini, Lithocupes, Monticupes, Notocupoides, Odontomma, Ommatini, Paraodontomma, Pareuryomma, Polyakius, Pronotocupedini, Rhopalomma, Stegocoleus, Tetraphalerini, Tetraphalerus, Tetraphalerus brevicapitis

Subtaxa: Tetraphalerites oligocenicus

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Type: Tetraphalerites oligocenicus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

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