Omethidae
{{short description|Family of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Omethes marginatus 60783688.jpg
| image_caption = Omethes marginatus
| name =
| taxon = Omethidae
| display_parents = 3
| authority = LeConte, 1861
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Omethidae is a family of Elateroidea sometimes known as the false soldier beetles.{{cite web |url=http://bugguide.net/node/view/110285 |title=Family Omethidae - False Soldier Beetles |publisher=BugGuide |access-date=2017-01-24}} They are native to South, Southeast and Eastern Asia and the Americas.{{Cite journal |last=Roza |first=André Silva |last2=Constantin |first2=Robert |last3=Mermudes |first3=José Ricardo Miras |date=2019-11-26 |title=Pseudotelegeusis meloi sp. nov., the first Telegeusinae from Peru (Coleoptera: Omethidae, Telegeusinae) |url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/809 |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |issue=580 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2019.580 |issn=2118-9773|doi-access=free }}{{Citation |last=Ramsdale |first=Alistair S. |title=4.16. Omethidae LeConte, 1861 |date=2010-12-31 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110911213.149/html |work=Coleoptera, Beetles, Volume 2, Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim) |pages=149–153 |editor-last=Kükenthal |editor-first=Willy |publisher=DE GRUYTER |doi=10.1515/9783110911213.149 |isbn=978-3-11-019075-5 |access-date=2022-10-02 |editor2-last=Leschen |editor2-first=Richard A.B. |editor3-last=Beutel |editor3-first=Rolf G. |editor4-last=Lawrence |editor4-first=John F.}} Their biology is obscure and their larvae are unknown. They appear to inhabit vegetation in or surrounding forests, and are probably active during the day.
Classification and taxonomy
There are some 40 species in 11 genera, divided into four subfamilies. Long-lipped beetles (Telegeusinae) were formerly treated as a family Telegeusidae but are most recently treated as a subfamily within Omethidae.Kundrata R, Bocakova M, Bocak L. (2014) The comprehensive phylogeny of the superfamily Elateroidea (Coleoptera: Elateriformia). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 76:162-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.012.Roza, A.S.; Constantin, R.; Mermudes, J.R.M. Pseudotelegeusis meloi sp. nov., the first Telegeusinae from Peru (Coleoptera: Omethidae, Telegeusinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, [S.l.], n. 580, nov. 2019. ISSN 2118-9773. Available at:
=Subfamily [[Driloniinae]]=
=Subfamily [[Matheteinae]]=
=Subfamily [[Omethinae]]=
=Subfamily [[Telegeusinae]]=
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