Megacephalini

Tribe of beetles

Megacephalini
Tetracha floridana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cicindelidae
Tribe: Megacephalini
Laporte, 1834

Megacephalini is a tribe of big-headed tiger beetles in the family Cicindelidae.

Tetracha virginica

Genera

These genera belong definitively to the tribe Megacephalini, as they are groups often placed within the type genus Megacephala itself:

  • Grammognatha Motschulsky, 1850
  • Megacephala Latreille, 1802
  • Metriocheila Thomson, 1857
  • Phaeoxantha Chaudoir, 1850
  • Pseudotetracha Fleutiaux, 1894
  • Tetracha Hope, 1838 (metallic tiger beetles)

These genera are of less certain placement or status:[1]

  • Aniara Hope, 1838 (probable synonym of Tetracha)
  • Callidema Guérin-Méneville, 1843 (unrelated to other megacephalines)[2]
  • Cheiloxya Guerin-Meneville, 1855 (genetically unrelated to other megacephalines)
  • †Cretotetracha Zhao et al., 2019 (fossil taxon of uncertain affinity)
  • Oxycheila Dejean, 1825 (genetically unrelated to other megacephalines)
  • †Oxycheilopsis Cassola & Werner, 2004 (fossil taxon of uncertain affinity)
  • Pseudoxycheila Guerin-Meneville, 1839 (genetically unrelated to other megacephalines)

References

  1. ^ Gough, Harlan M.; Duran, Daniel P.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Toussaint, Emmanuel F.A. (2018). "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (2): 1–17. doi:10.1111/syen.12324. S2CID 54046862.
  2. ^ Análise cladística da tribo Megacephalini Laporte, 1834 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Cicindelinae)

Further reading

  • Naviaux, Roger (2007). Tetracha (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae, Megacephalina). Révision du genre et descriptions de nouveaux taxons. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de France. Vol. 7. Société Entomologique de France. ISBN 978-2-912703-09-5.
  • Pearson, David; Knisley, C. Barry; Kazilek, Charles J.; Pearson, David L.; et al. (2005). A Field Guide To The Tiger Beetles Of The United States And Canada. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198040095.
  • Assmann, T.; Boutaud, E.; Buse, J.; Gebert, J.; et al. (2018). "The tiger beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae) of the southern Levant: from cybertaxonomy to conservation biolog". ZooKeys (734): 43–103. doi:10.3897/zookeys.734.21989. PMC 5904327. PMID 29674855.
  • Riley, K.; Browne, R. (2011). "Changes in ground beetle diversity and community composition in age structured forests (Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys (147): 601–621. doi:10.3897/zookeys.147.2102. PMC 3286241. PMID 22371677.
  • Bousquet, Yves (2010). Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-954-642-522-5.
  • Erwin, Terry L. (2007). A Treatise on the Western Hemisphere Caraboidea (Coleoptera): Their classification, distributions, and ways of life. Volume I. Trachypachidae, Carabidae - Nebriiformes 1. Pensoft Series Faunistica. Vol. 66. Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-954-642-2989. ISSN 1312-0174.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
  • LeConte, J. L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 978-0665100550.
  • Media related to Megacephalini at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
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