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Melasinae

{{short description|Subfamily of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Epiphanis cornutus Eschscholtz, 1829 (25353697043).png

| image_caption = Epiphanis cornutus

| taxon = Melasinae

| authority = Fleming, 1821

}}

Melasinae is a subfamily of false click beetles in the family Eucnemidae.

File:False Click Beetle (Isorhipis obliqua) (13236046593).jpg

Tribes and Genera

File:XylophilusSp.png

BioLib[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id9508/ BioLib.cz: subfamily Melasinae Leach, 1817] (retrieved 4 January 2025) includes eight tribes:

;Calyptocerini {{Au|Muona, 1993}}

  1. Calyptocerus {{Au|Guérin-Ménéville, 1843}}
  2. Otho (beetle) {{Au|Lacordaire, 1857}}

;Ceballosmelasini {{Au|Muona, 1993}}

  1. Ceballosmelasis {{Au|Cobos, 1965}}

=Dirhagini=

Authority: Reitter, 1911

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  1. Adelorhagus {{Au|Horn, 1890}}
  2. Adelothyreus {{Au|Chevrolat, 1868}}
  3. Arganus {{Au|de Bonvouloir, 1871}}
  4. Arrhipis {{Au|Gemminger, 1869}}
  5. Balistica {{Au|Motschoulsky, 1861}}
  6. Buckiella {{Au|Cobos, 1964}}
  7. Cafolus {{Au|de Bonvouloir, 1875}}
  8. Clypeorhagus {{Au|Olexa, 1975}}
  9. Dirrhagofarsus Fleutiaux, 1935 g b
  10. Entomophthalmus Bonvouloir, 1871 g b
  11. Farsus {{Au|Jacquelin de Val, 1863}}
  12. Freyiola {{Au|Cobos, 1964}}
  13. Fryanus {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1902}}
  14. Golbachia Cobos, 1955 b
  15. Haywardius {{Au|Cobos, 1958}}
  16. Melocarvalhosia {{Au|Cobos, 1957}}
  17. Microrhagus Dejean, 1833 g b
  18. Porraulacus {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1896}}
  19. Prodirhagus {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1925}}
  20. Protofarsus {{Au|Muona, 2000}}
  21. Quirsfeldia {{Au|Cobos, 1965}}
  22. Rhacopus {{Au|Hampe, 1855}}
  23. Rhagomicrus {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1902}}
  24. Sarfus {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1925}}
  25. Sarpedon (beetle) Bonvouloir, 1871 g b
  26. Talerax {{Au|Sharp, 1877}}
  27. Weyrauchiella {{Au|Cobos, 1972}}

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=Epiphanini=

Authority: Muona, 1993

  1. Epiphanis Eschscholtz, 1829 i c g b
  2. Hylis Des Gozis, 1886 g b

;Hylocharini {{Au|Jacquelin du Val, 1859}}

  1. Hylochares Latreille, 1834 g b

=Melasini=

Authority: Leach, 1817

  1. Compsocnemis {{Au|de Bonvouloir, 1875}}
  2. Isorhipis Boisduval & Lacordaire, 1835 g b
  3. Melasis Olivier, 1790 g b

;Neocharini {{Au|Muona, 1993}}

  1. Neocharis {{Au|Sharp, 1877}}

;Xylobiini {{Au|Reitter, 1911}}

  1. Agalba {{Au|Broun, 1893}}
  2. Basilewskydia {{Au|Cobos, 1959}}
  3. Bioxylus {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1923}}
  4. Cedraderus {{Au|Leschen & Gimmel, 2023}}
  5. Paraxylophilus {{Au|Cobos, 1965}}
  6. Proxylobius {{Au|Fleutiaux, 1900}}
  7. Saproxylobius {{Au|Leiler, 1990}}
  8. Xylophilus Mannerheim, 1823 i c g b
  9. Xylotho {{Au|Lucht, 1990}}

Other data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

{{Reflist|refs=

{{Cite web| title=Melasinae Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=678548

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| accessdate=2018-04-05

}}

{{Cite web| title=Melasinae Overview

| url=http://eol.org/pages/2655821/overview

| website=Encyclopedia of Life

| accessdate=2018-04-05

}}

{{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life

| url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/

| accessdate=2018-04-05

}}

{{Cite web| title=GBIF

| url=https://www.gbif.org/

| accessdate=2018-04-05

}}

{{Cite web| title=Melasinae Subfamily Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/881536

| website=BugGuide.net

| accessdate=2018-04-05

}}

}}

Further reading

{{refbegin}}

  • {{Cite book

| editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = R.H. Jr.

| editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = M. C.

| editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = P. E.

| editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. H.

| date = 2002

| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea

| publisher = CRC Press

| isbn = 978-0849309540

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Blatchley | first1 = W.S.

| date = 1910

| title = An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up

| publisher = Nature Pub.

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice

| last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves

| last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E.

| last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A.

| last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F.

| last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C.

| last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F.

| last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M.

| last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael

| last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam

| last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T.

| display-authors = 4

| date = 2011

| title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)

| journal = ZooKeys

| publisher = Pensoft Publishers

| issue = 88

| pages = 1–972

| issn = 1313-2989

| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807

| pmid = 21594053

| pmc = 3088472

| doi-access = free

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Crotch | first1 = G.R.

| date = 1873

| title = Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico

| publisher = Naturalists' Agency

| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38811

| doi-access = free

| isbn = 0665070772

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Evans | first1 = Arthur V.

| last2 = Hogue | first2 = James N.

| date = 2006

| title = Field Guide to Beetles of California

| publisher = University of California Press

| isbn = 978-0520246577

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Klimaszewski | first1 = Jan

| last2 = Watt | first2 = J.Charles

| date = 1997

| title = Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification

| url = https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1797/

| journal = Fauna of New Zealand

| volume = 37

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Lawrence | first1 = J.F.

| last2 = Newton Jr. | first2 = A.F.

| editor-last1 = Pakaluk | editor-first1 = James

| editor-last2 = Slipinski | editor-first2 = Stanislaw Adam

| date = 1995

| title = Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)

| series = Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson

| publisher = Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN

| volume = 2

| pages = 779–1006

| isbn = 83-85192-34-4

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = LeConte | first1 = J.L.

| date = 1861

| title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America

| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732

| series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

| publisher = Smithsonian Institution

| volume = 3

| issue = 136

| isbn = 0665100558

| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459

| doi-access = free

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = Leng | first1 = Charles W.

| date = 1920

| title = Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico

| publisher = John D. Sherman, Jr.

| doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.8777

| doi-access = free

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| editor-last1 = Poole | editor-first1 = Robert W.

| editor-last2 = Gentili | editor-first2 = Patricia

| date = 1996

| title = A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera

| url = http://nearctica.com/nomina/pdfs/volume1/volume1.htm

| journal = Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America

| publisher = Entomological Information Services

| volume = 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera

| pages = 41–820

| isbn = 9781889002019

}}

  • {{Cite book

| last1 = White

| first1 = Richard E.

| date = 1998

| origyear = 1983

| title = A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides)

| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

| isbn = 0395910897

| url-access = registration

| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894

}}

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Category:Eucnemidae

Category:Beetle subfamilies