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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Cassidinae
Tribus: Mesomphaliini
Genera: Acromis – Amythra – Anacassis – Anepsiomorpha – BotanocharaChelymorpha – Convexocoleus – Cyrtonota – Echoma – Elytrogona – Eutheria – Hilarocassis – Mesomphalia – Nebraspis – Ogdoecosta – Omaspides – Paraselenis – Phytodectoidea – Poecilaspidella – StoibaStolas – Terpsis – Trilaccodea – Xenicomorpha – Zatrephina

Name

Mesomphaliini Hope, 1840
Synonyms

Mésomphaliites: Chapuis, 1875: 392
Omoplatites Chapuis, 1875: 397 (unavailable name)
Chélymorphites Chapuis, 1875: 402 (unavailable name)
Elytrogonites Chapuis, 1875: 403 (unavailable name)
Stolaini Hincks, 1952: 329

References
Primary references

Chapuis, F. 1875. Tome onzième. Famille des phytophages. In: Lacordaire, J.T. & Chapuis, F. (eds) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 420 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Hincks, W.D. 1952. The genera of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 103: 327–358.
Hope, F.W. 1840. The coleopterist's manual, part the third, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : J.C. Bridgewater and Bowdery & Kerby. 191 pp. + 3 pls. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Borowiec, L. 1999. A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologica Silesiae, Wrocław, 476 pp.
Borowiec, L. & Takizawa, H. 2011. Neotropical tortoise beetles in the Amazon Insectarium, Tokyo, Japan with description of nine new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus 22(3): 427–484. PDF.
López-Pérez, S., Zaragoza-Caballero, S. & Chaboo, C.A. 2016. Revision of Ogdoecosta Spaeth 1909 with description of Ogdoecosta paraflavomaculata López-Pérez, sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini). Zootaxa 4179(3): 410–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.4 Paywall. Reference page.
Seeno, T.N. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982. Leaf beetle genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomography 1: 1–221. Google Books (Snippet view only). Reference page.
Shin, C. 2013. A new genus of mesomphaliine tortoise beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), with description of a new flightless species from Haiti. Coleopterists Bulletin 67(4): 521–531. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-67.4.521 Paywall Reference page.

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