Insecta - Coleoptera - Ommatidae

Alternative spellings: Tetraphaleridae, Tetraphalerini

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: Ommatidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Li et al. 2021 and Tan et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Asiania, Brochocoleinae, Clessidromma, Kirejtomma, Limnomma, Miniomma, Ommatinae

Subtaxa: Bukhkalius

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Type: Tetraphalerus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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