Ommatiinae Hardy, 1927

Scarbrough, A. G., 2010, An overview of the Afrotropical Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) with a key to genera, Zootaxa 2540, pp. 1-47 : 3

Subfamily: Ommatiinae Hardy, 1927

Diagnosis. Antenna with long slender stylus apically ( Figs. 1–6); stylus setae apically and ventrally, latter setae usually aligned in rows; face evenly contoured from antennae to epistomal margin, usually visible only on lower extremes in lateral view; postmetacoxal area sclerotized, forming a complete bridge behind metathoracic coxa; cell r 1 stalked apically, veins R 1 and R 2+3 fused before costa ( Figs. 24, 30, 41, 52, 58, 67, 73, 83, 89).

Distribution. Widespread, absent in Europe and below 30 o north and south latitude. Twelve world genera with nine in the Afrotropical Region.