Megacephalini

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

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:

• Aniara Hope, 1838 (probable synonym of Tetracha)
• Callidema Guérin-Méneville, 1843 (unrelated to other megacephalines)
• 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)

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. ISBN978-2-912703-09-5.
• Pearson, David; Knisley, C. Barry; Kazilek, Charles J.; Pearson, David L.; etal. (2005). . Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198040095.
• Assmann, T.; Boutaud, E.; Buse, J.; Gebert, J.; etal. (2018). . ZooKeys (734): 43–103. doi:. PMC. PMID.
• Riley, K.; Browne, R. (2011). . ZooKeys (147): 601–621. Bibcode:. doi:. PMC. PMID.
• Bousquet, Yves (2010). Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Pensoft Publishers. ISBN978-954-642-522-5.
• 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. ISBN978-954-642-2989. ISSN.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN978-90-04-33029-0.
• LeConte, J. L. (1861). . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol.3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:. ISBN978-0665100550. {{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

External links

• Media related to Megacephalini at Wikimedia Commons