Nitidulidae - Meligethinae
Descriptions and Identification Keys
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- Audisio, P. (2002) "Specific validity of Meligethes cyrenaicus Rebmann, 1940, and an updated identification key for the M. carinulatus species-group (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae)." Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 49: 23-26.
- Audisio, P., Cline, A.R., De Biase, A., Antonini, G., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Costantini, L., Strika, S., Lamanna, F., & Cerretti, P. (2009) "Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)." Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 341-504.
- Audisio, P., Cline, A.R., Mancini, E., Trizzino, M., Avgin, S.S., & De Biase, A. (2011) "Four new Palaearctic Brassicogethes (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Meligethinae), and phylogenetic inference on the B. coracinus group." Rendiconti Lincei 22: 235-268.
- Audisio, P., De Biase, A., & Antonini, G. (2003) "A new exceptional Meligethes of the M. aeneus species-group from Western Alps and an updated key to identification of M. aeneus and allied species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)." Insect Systematics & Evolution 34: 121-130.
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- Audisio, P., Sabatelli, S., & Jelínek, J. (2014) "Revision of the pollen beetle genus Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)." Fragmenta entomologica 46: 19-112.
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- Liu, M., Huang, M., Cline, A.R., Cardoli, P., Audisio, P., & Sabatelli, S. (2020) "Re-examination of the genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae – Part 1. Sagittogethes Audisio & Cline 2009 and allied genera; with description of a new genus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)." Fragmenta entomologica 52: 119-135.
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