Archostemata, Kolbe, 1908

Strelnikova, O. D. & Yan, E. V., 2023, ON SPLITTING OF THE GENUS NOTOCUPES (COLEOPTERA: ARCHOSTEMATA): NEW DATA ON MORPHOLOGY AND TAXONOMY, Far Eastern Entomologist 488, pp. 1-28 : 12

Suborder Archostemata

REMARKS. Position of the fossil genus Notocupes and related genera within families of suborder Archostemata is still uncertain. There are two points of view regarding the taxonomic status of the family Ommatidae : treating it as a subfamily of Cupedidae ( Kirejtshuk et al., 2016; Jarzembowski et al., 2016, 2017, 2019; Kirejtshuk, 2020, 2021) and as a separate family ( Lawrence, 1999; Tan et al., 2006, 2012; Tihelka et al., 2019; Jiang et al., 2020; Strelnikova & Yan, 2021, 2023). There is also a suggestion to placed Notocupes and related genera into a separate family Notocupedidae ( Li et al., 2023a, b). Thus, Notocupes should be used without specifying the family ( Li et al., 2023a) until clear diagnoses for the families discussed that can be applied to fossil material will be formulated.