Genus ACARTOPHTHALMITES Hennig † Acartophthalmites Hennig 1965: 130. Type species, Acartophthalmites tertiaria Hennig 1965, by original designation. Gender feminine (Note Article 30.1.4.4 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999)). Evenhuis 1994: 417 [fossil catalogue, world, as Acartophthalmidae]; Lonsdale et al. 2010: 232 [questionably placed in Clusiidae]; Roháček 2016: 411 [discussion of genus and family placement]. clusioides Roháček. PA: Baltic amber (Eocene). Acartophthalmites clusioides Roháček 2016: 411. Baltic amber. Russia: Kaliningrad region, Yantarny. HT ♀ SMOC. Roháček 2016: 411 [photographs, illustrations]. tertiaria Hennig. PA: Baltic amber (Eocene/Oligocene). Acartophthalmites tertiaria Hennig 1965: 132. Baltic amber. HT ♀ ZMKR. Hennig 1965: 132 [illustrations of thorax, legs and wings, questionably placed in Acartophthalmidae]; McAlpine 1989: 1457 [possible placement in Clusiidae]; Evenhuis 1994: 417 [fossil catalogue, world]; Tschirnhaus & Hoffeins 2009: 207 [key]. Acartophthalmites electrica. Hennig 1969: 18 [lapsus, accidental use of specific epithet used for Protodina electrica Hennig, Odiniidae, mentioned on same page; illustrations of wing, legs, abdomen].

Published as part of Owen Lonsdale, 2017, World Catalogue of the Druid Flies (Diptera: Schizophora: Clusiidae), pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 4333 (1) on pages 70-71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4333.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010066