Omineus Lewis, 1895

Alekseev, Vitalii I., Pollock, Darren A. & Bukejs, Andris, 2019, Two new fossil representatives of Eurypinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Mycteridae) from Eocene Baltic amber and placement of Neopolypria nigra Abdullah, 1964, Zootaxa 4551 (1), pp. 67-78 : 71

Genus Omineus Lewis, 1895

This is a small genus which presently contains 5 extant species ( Young & Saitô 2017), distributed in the eastern Palaearctic ( Japan, Taiwan) and Oriental regions. The fossil specimen under study resembles recent Omineus species in general appearance and was assigned to this genus based on a combination of the following morphological characters: paramedian depressions at pronotal base present; clypeus flat and frons convex; head slightly narrowed posterior of eyes; frontal furrows and ocular grooves absent; eye protuberant, non-emarginate, without intrafacetal setae; pronotum transverse; pronotal basal margin with shallow groove; and lateral carina of pronotum absent.