MEGALOPODIDAE Latreille, 1802
(a family of leaf beetles)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	MEGALOPODIDAE (a family of leaf beetles)
Superfamily	CHRYSOMELOIDEA (leaf, longhorn and seed beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

MEGALOPODIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Cox, M.L.	2007	Supplement to Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	http://www.brc.ac.uk/resources.htm
()	Duff, A.G.	2016	Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae	Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, 623pp
()	Hubble, D.	2012	Keys to the adults of Seed and Leaf Beetles of the British Isles. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae, Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae & Chrysomelidae)	AIDGAP, 136pp, Field Studies Council

MEGALOPODIDAE (a family of leaf beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MEGALOPODIDAE (a family of leaf beetles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 22 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MEGALOPODIDAE (a family of leaf beetles)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

MEGALOPODIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)