Biology:Miniomma
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Short description: Extinct genus of beetles
| Miniomma | |
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| Miniomma chenkuni under normal and fluorescent light | |
Scientific classification 
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| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Arthropoda |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Insecta |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Coleoptera |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Ommatidae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | †Miniomma Li, Yamamoto & Cai, 2020 |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">†M. chenkuni |
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| †Miniomma chenkuni Li, Yamamoto & Cai, 2020
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Miniomma is an extinct genus of ommatid beetle. It is known from a single species, Miniomma chenkuni, from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber from Myanmar. The species is the smallest known ommatid, at less than 2 mm long, compared to Omma, which ranges in length from 6 to 26 mm.[1]
References
- ↑ Li, Yan-Da; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Huang, Di-Ying; Cai, Chen-Yang (2020-11-17). "A miniaturized ommatid beetle in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae)" (in en). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60: e20206063. doi:10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.63. ISSN 1807-0205. https://www.revistas.usp.br/paz/article/view/174424.
Wikidata ☰ Q102797552 entry
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