Megamerini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Sagrinae
Tribus: Megamerini
Genera: Ametalla – Atalasis – Coolgardica – Mecynodera – Megamerus – Neodiaphanops – Polyoptilus – Prionesthis – Pseudotoxotus – †Palaeatalasis
Name

Megamerini Chapuis, 1874

Type genus: Megamerus MacLeay, 1827
Synonymy

Megamerites Chapuis, 1874: 30
Megamerinae: Jacoby, 1903: 2
Megamerini: Clavareau, 1913: 4
Ametallites Chapuis, 1874: 46
Ametallinae: Jacoby, 1903: 1
Ametallini: Clavareau, 1913: 12
Mecynoderites Chapuis, 1874: 44
Mecynoderinae: Jacoby, 1903: 1
Mecynoderini: Clavareau, 1913: 11

References
Primary references

Chapuis, F. 1874. Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages. In: Lacordaire, J.T. & Chapuis, F. (eds) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. iv + 445 pp. BHL Reference page.
Clavareau, H. 1913. Pars 51: Chrysomelidae: 1. Sagrinae, 2. Donaciinae, 3. Orsodacninae, 4. Criocerinae. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Volumen XXIV. Chrysomelidae I. Berlin: W. Junk. 103 pp. BHL Reference page.
Jacoby, M. 1903. Coleoptera Phytophaga. Sect. Eupoda. Fam. Sagridae. In: Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Londres & Bruxelles, 14: 1–14. BHL.

Additional references

Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 Open access. PMC: 3088472 Open access. Reference page.
Legalov, A.A. 2021. First record of the subfamily Sagrinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Eocene of North America. Fossil Record 25: 135–139. DOI: 10.5194/fr-24-135-2021 Open access.
Seeno, T.N. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982. Leaf beetle genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomography 1: 1–221. Google Books (Snippet view only). Reference page.
Sekerka, L. & Voisin, J.-F. 2014. Types of Sagrinae in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 49(4): 413–429. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2014.893681 Paywall Reference page.