Melasinae Fleming, 1821

Meng, Ziye, Chen, Xiaoqin, Sun, Yuna, Ruan, Yongying & Jiang, Shihong, 2020, Catalogue of Eucnemidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in China, Zoological Systematics 45 (4), pp. 290-311 : 292

3.1 Subfamily Melasinae Fleming, 1821

Melasides: Lacordaire, 1857, Hist. Nat . Insect., 4: 98–99 [as tribe]. Type genus: Melasis Olivier, 1790. —— Thomson, 1859, Skan.Col., Syn. Bear., 1: 100. —— Fleutiaux, 1901, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Fr., 70: 641. ——Leconte, 1853a, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., 10: 410.

Melasites: Du Val, 1859–1863, Gen . Col. Eur., 3: 113–121. [secondairy group in Eucnemites]. Type genus: Melasis Olivier, 1790. —— Blanchard, 1845, His. Insect., 2: 70. —— Fleutiaux, 1901, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Fr., 70: 641. ——Muona, 2007, Catal. Pal. Col., 4: 82.

Melasitae: Cobos, 1958, Acta Zool. Li., 15: 114. Type genus: Melasis Olivier, 1790. —— Cobos, 1959, Misc. Zool., 1(2): 78. —— Cobos, 1961, Inst. Sci. Nat . Belg., 35: 2. —— Cobos, 1964, Rev. Espan. Entomol., 4(3–4): 368. ——Muona, 2007, Catal. Pal. Col., 4: 82.

Melasinae : Fleutiaux, 1901, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Fr., 70: 643–648 [as subfamily]. Type genus: Melasis Olivier, 1790. —— Fleutiaux, 1920b, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Belg., 60: 93. —— Fleutiaux, 1921b, Annls. Soc. Entomol. Belg., 61: 23. —— Wu, 1937, Cat. Insect. Sin.: 472. —— Fleutiaux, 1947, Not. Entomol. Chin., 11: 4, 48. ——Mouna, 1991, Aust. Syst. Bot., 4(1): 167–172. ——Mouna, 1993, Entomol. Scand. Suppl., 44: 6. ——Lawrence & Newton, 1995, Fam. Sub. Col., 1995: 852. ——Muona, 2007, Catal. Pal. Col., 4: 82. —— Majka, 2007, Zootaxa, 1636(1): 35–41. ——Muona & Teräväinen, 2008, Col. Bull., 62(4): 476–478. —— Bouchard et al., 2011, Zookeys, 88: 50, 301. ——Chittaro & Blanc, 2012, Mit. Sch. Entomol. Ges., 85: 98. —— Otto, 2013a, Insect. Mundi, 0297: 1. —— Kovalev, 2013, Proc. Zool. Inst. РАН, 317(3): 268–269. —— Vahtera et al., 2015, Biodivers. Data J., 3: 4. —— Mertlik, 2015, Elateridarium, 9: 78–95. —— Kovalev, 2016, Zool. Ros., 25: 278. ——Otto, 2016, Entomol. Basil. Col. Frey, 35: 184, 188, 189. — — Németh & Otto, 2016, Elateridarium, 10: 133–139. ——Seung & Lee, 2018b, J. Asia. Pac. Entomol., 21(1): 115–123. ——Muona & Teräväinen, 2020, Pap. Avulsos. Zool., 60: 1–11.