{{Short description|Tribe of leaf beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Megascelis caerulipennis 115978182.jpg | image_caption = ''Megascelis caeruleipennis'' | taxon = Megascelidini | authority = Chapuis, 1874<ref name="Chapuis1874">{{cite contribution|last=Chapuis|first=F.|year=1874|title=Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9655043|editor-last1=Lacordaire|editor-first1=J.T.|editor-last2=Chapuis|editor-first2=F.|encyclopedia=Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères|publisher=Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret|place=Paris|pages=i–iv, 1–455}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Mariamela'' * ''Megascelis'' }}
'''Megascelidini''' is a tribe of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains two genera, ''Megascelis'' and ''Mariamela'', which are found in the New World. Historically, the group was classified as a separate subfamily.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bechyné|first1=J.|last2=Springlová de Bechyné|first2=B.|year=1969|title=La posición sistemática de ''Megascelis'' Chevrolat (Col. Phytophaga)|url=http://chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/sites/chrysomelidae.miza-ucv.org.ve/files/1969_Separata_180.pdf|journal=Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía (Maracay)|volume=3|pages=65–76}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Reid|first=C. A. M.|year=2000|title=Spilopyrinae Chapuis: a new subfamily in the Chrysomelidae and its systematic placement (Coleoptera)|url=http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IT00042|journal=Invertebrate Taxonomy|volume=14|issue=6|pages=837–862|doi=10.1071/IT00042|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
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Category:Beetle tribes Category:Eumolpinae
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