Tribe Tetraonycini Böving and Craighead 1931
Insecta - Coleoptera - Meloidae
Alternative spellings: Tetraonycidae, Tetraonycinae
Full reference: A. G. Böving and F. C. Craighead. 1931. An illustrated synopsis of the principal larval forms of the order Coleoptera. Entomologica Americana (New Series) 11:1-351
Parent taxon: Meloinae according to A. Riccieri et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Cai et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Epicautini, Lyttini, Meloini, Mylabrini
Subtaxa: Tetraonyx
Type: Tetraonyx
Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection) (Eocene of Colorado)