Megacephalini Laporte, 1834, 1829

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 207

Tribe Megacephalini Laporte, 1834

Megacephalidae Laporte, 1834: 33. Type genus: Megacephala Latreille, 1802.

Megalocephalidae Gistel, 1850: 75. Type genus: Megalocephala Gistel, 1850 (= Megacephala Latreille, 1802).

Oxycheilites J. Thomson, 1857: 17, 53. Type genus: Oxycheila Dejean, 1825.

Tetrachae Leng and Mutchler, 1916: 683. Type genus: Tetracha Hope, 1838.

Diversity.

About 200 species in the Nearctic (four species), Neotropical (about 165 species), Australian (25 species), Palaearctic (one species), and Afrotropical (12 species) Regions. The species are arrayed in 11 genera (see Naviaux 2007: 10-11): Aniara Hope (one Neotropical species), Australicapitona Sumlin (eight Australian species), Cheiloxia Guérin-Méneville (two Neotropical species), Grammognatha Motschulsky (one Mediterranean species), Megacephala Latreille (12 Afrotropical species), Metriocheila Thomson (one Neotropical species), Oxycheila Dejean (about 30 Neotropical species), Phaeoxantha Chaudoir (12 Neotropical species), Pseudotetracha Fleutiaux (17 Australian species), Pseudoxycheila Guérin-Méneville (about 20 Neotropical species), and Tetracha (about 95 species).