Megasternini Mulsant, 1844

Bouchard, Patrice, Bousquet, Yves, Davies, Anthony E., Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., Lawrence, John F., Lyal, Chris H. C., Newton, Alfred F., Reid, Chris A. M., Schmitt, Michael, Ślipinski, S. Adam & Smith, Andrew B. T., 2011, Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, pp. 1-972 : 89-90

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Megasternini Mulsant, 1844
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Tribe Megasternini Mulsant, 1844 View in CoL

Megasternaires Mulsant, 1844: 186 [stem: Megastern-]. Type genus: Megasternum Mulsant, 1844 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1981b)]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by G. H. Horn (1890: 307, as Megasterni ), generally accepted as in Hansen (2004: 61, as Megasternini ).

Cercyones G. H. Horn, 1890: 287 [stem: Cercyon-]. Type genus: Cercyon Leach, 1817.