Insecta - Coleoptera - Megalopodidae

Alternative spelling: Megalopides

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

Parent taxon: Chrysomeloidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Crowson 1981, Haddad et al. 2018 and Lawrence and Newton 1995

Sister taxa: Bruchidae, Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae, Disteniidae, Orsodacnidae, Oxypeltidae, Paloedemera, Vesperidae

Subtaxa: Megalopodinae Palophaginae Zeugophorinae

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (Zoological Institute ZIN collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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