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

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

Genera

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

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

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  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)

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