Mesomphaliini

Mesomphalia turrita in Santo André (SP), Brasil.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chrysomeloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Cladus: Phytophaga Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Cassidinae
Tribus: Mesomphaliini
Genera: Acromis – Amythra – Anacassis – Anepsiomorpha – Botanochara – Chelymorpha – Convexocoleus – Cyrtonota – Echoma – Elytrogona – Eutheria – Hilarocassis – Mesomphalia – Nebraspis – Ogdoecosta – Omaspides – Paraselenis – Phytodectoidea – Poecilaspidella – Stoiba – Stolas – Terpsis – Trilaccodea – Xenicomorpha – Zatrephina

Name

Mesomphaliini Hope, 1840

Synonyms

• Mésomphaliites: Chapuis, 1875: 392
• Omoplatites Chapuis, 1875: 397 (unavailable name)
• Chélymorphites Chapuis, 1875: 402 (unavailable name)
• Elytrogonites Chapuis, 1875: 403 (unavailable name)
• Stolaini Hincks, 1952: 329

References

Primary references

• Chapuis, F. 1875. Tome onzième. 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. 420 pp. BHL. Reference page. 
• Hincks, W.D. 1952. The genera of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 103: 327–358. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1952.tb01061.x .
• Hope, F.W. 1840. The coleopterist's manual, part the third, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : J.C. Bridgewater and Bowdery & Kerby. 191 pp. + 3 pls. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Borowiec, L. 1999. A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologica Silesiae, Wrocław, 476 pp.
• Borowiec, L. & Takizawa, H. 2011. Neotropical tortoise beetles in the Amazon Insectarium, Tokyo, Japan with description of nine new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus 22(3): 427–484. PDF.
• López-Pérez, S., Zaragoza-Caballero, S. & Chaboo, C.A. 2016. Revision of Ogdoecosta Spaeth 1909 with description of Ogdoecosta paraflavomaculata López-Pérez, sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini). Zootaxa 4179(3): 410–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.4 . Reference page. 
• Seeno, T.N. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982. Leaf beetle genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomography 1: 1–221. Google Books (Snippet view only). Reference page. 
• Shin, C. 2013. A new genus of mesomphaliine tortoise beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with description of a new flightless species from Haiti. The Coleopterists Bulletin 67(4): 521–531. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-67.4.521 Reference page.