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Megascelis Latreille, 1825

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Latreille, P.A. (1829). Les crustacés, les arachnides et les insectes, distribués en familles naturelles, ouvrage formant les tomes 4 et 5 de celui de M. le Baron Cuvier sur le règne animal (deuxième édition). Tome second. Déterville, Paris, xxiv + 556 pp.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Chrysomelidae
genus
Megascelis

Name

Synonyms
Megascelis Dejean, 1821
Homonyms
Megascelis Latreille, 1825
Megascelis Shuckard, 1840
Megascelis Dejean, 1821
Megascelis Sturm, 1826

Bibliographic References

  1. Blackwelder RE (1946). Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America, pt. 4. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. i–iii, 551-763. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.185.4
  2. CoL 2006
  3. Flowers RW (1996) La subfamilia Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) en América Central. Revista de Biología Tropical Special Publication 2: 1–59.
  4. Latreille PA (1825) Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposées succinctement et dans un ordre analytique, avec l’indication de leurs genres. J.B. Baillière, Paris, 570 pp.
  5. Latreille PA (1829) Tome V. Suite et fin des insectes. In: Cuvier G.: Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée, Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée. Déterville, Paris, xxii + 556 pp. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1852094
  6. Latreille, P.A. (1829). Les crustacés, les arachnides et les insectes, distribués en familles naturelles, ouvrage formant les tomes 4 et 5 de celui de M. le Baron Cuvier sur le règne animal (deuxième édition). Tome second. Déterville, Paris, xxiv + 556 pp.
  7. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  8. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  9. Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno, 2003: Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1. 290.
  10. SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present
  11. SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present
  12. Vergara EV, Montenegro LM, Serna F (2021) Catálogo de Coleoptera de la Colección Taxonómica Nacional de Insectos: “Luis María Murillo” (CTNI).
  13. as per family
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