Tribe Megatomini Leach 1815 (skin beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dermestidae

Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172

Parent taxon: Megatominae according to J. Háva 2025

See also Bukejs and Háva 2018, Bukejs et al. 2023, Deng et al. 2017, Háva 2004, Háva 2014, Háva 2015, Háva 2020, Háva 2021, Háva 2023, Háva and Alekseev 2015, Háva and Bukejs 2018, Háva and Prokop 2004, Poinar and Háva 2015, Zahradník and Háva 2014 and Zhou et al. 2022

Sister taxon: Anthrenini

Subtaxa: Cretomegatoma Globicornis Megatomina Orphinina Trogodermina Tuberphradonoma

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Type: Megatoma

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (9)

• Cretaceous of Egypt (2), Myanmar (2), United States (1: New Jersey)

Total: 22 collections including 42 occurrences

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