Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2017. Omma daxishanense sp. nov., a fossil representative of an extant Australian endemic genus recorded from the Late Jurassic of China (Coleoptera: Ommatidae). Alcheringa 41:277-283

Belongs to Omma according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2020

See also Cai and Huang 2017 and Escalona et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Omma aberratum, Omma altajense, Omma ancistrodontum, Omma antennatum, Omma avus, Omma brevipes, Omma davidbatteni, Omma delicatum, Omma elongatum, Omma forte, Omma gobiense, Omma grande, Omma janetae, Omma jurassicum, Omma liassicum, Omma lii, Omma longicolle, Omma manukyani, Omma pilosum, Omma sibiricum, Omma zitteli, Pyrochroophana robusta, Pyrochroophana maior, Pyrochroophana suprajurensis

Type specimen: NIGP 163805, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daxishan, Linglongta Township (NIGP collection), which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Tiaojishan Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daxishan, Linglongta Township (NIGP collection)

Show more details

Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.