Mecysolobini

Familia: Curculionidae
Subfamilia: Molytinae
Tribus: Mecysolobini
Genera: Alcidodes – Alcidodoplesius – Brahmalcidodes – Cylindralcides – Merus – Neomecyslobus – Ornatalcides – Sternuchopsis – Tuberculomecyslobus

Note: For comments on generic boundaries and definitions see Morimoto & Kojima 2007 or Kumar, Ram Guru & Sreedevi 2022.

Mecysolobini Reitter, 1913: 33 (see key)

• Type genus: Mecysolobus Reitter, 1905 (Junior subjective synonym of Merus Gistel, 1857 per Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999: 205).

• Alcidini Jekel, 1865: 547
  • Type genus: Alcides Schönherr, 1825 [preoccupied genus name, not Alcides Hübner, 1822 [Lepidoptera]; (in some schemes as syn. of Sternuchopsis Heller, 1918)].
• Alcidodini G.A.K. Marshall, 1939: 582
  • Type genus: Alcidodes Marshall, 1939 (in some schemes as syn. of Sternuchopsis Heller, 1918).

• Reitter, E. 1913. Bestimmungs-Schlüssel der mir bekannten europäischen Gattungen der Carculionidae, mit Einschluß der mir- bekannten Gattungen aus dem paläarktischen Gebiete. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brünn 51 Bd. (1912) 1913: 1–90.

• Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. & Lyal, C.H.C. 1999. A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp. PDF. Reference page. 
• Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Barrios, H., Borovec, R., Bouchard, P., Caldara, R., Colonnelli, E., Gültekin, L., Hlaváč, P., Korotyaev, B.A., Lyal, C.H.C., Machado, A., Meregalli, M., Pierotti, H., Ren, L., Sánchez-Ruiz, M., Sforzi, A., Silfverberg, H., Skuhrovec, J., Trýzna, M., Velázquez de Castro, A.J. & Yunakov, N.N. 2017. Cooperative Catalogue of Palaeartic Coleoptera Curculionoidea. Monografias electrónicas SEA 8: 1–729. PDF. Reference page. 
• Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Barrios, H., Borovec, R., Bouchard, P., Caldara, R., Colonnelli, E., Gültekin, L., Hlaváč, P., Korotyaev, B.A., Lyal, C.H.C., Machado, A., Meregalli, M., Pierotti, H., Ren, L., Sánchez-Ruiz, M., Sforzi, A., Silfverberg, H., Skuhrovec, J., Trýzna, M., Velázquez de Castro, A.J. & Yunakov, N.N. 2023. Cooperative Catalogue of Palaeartic Coleoptera Curculionoidea. 2nd Edition. Monografias electrónicas SEA 14: 1–780. PDF. Reference page. 
• Andrew, J.P. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2010. A checklist of weevils of the tribe Mecysolobini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae). Oriental insects 44: 271–336. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2010.10417619 Reference page. 
• Haaf, E. 1961. Die Alcidodes der Insel Borneo (Col. Cure.) mit einer Anmerkung zur Synonymie. Entomologische Arbeiten Museum G. Frey 12: 373–435. PDF. Reference page. 
• Kumar T., Ram Guru, G.D. & Sreedevi, K. 2022. Redescription of seven genera of the tribe Mecysolobini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae) from India. Indian Journal of Entomology e22488. RearchGate pdf DOI: 10.55446/IJE.2022.977 (Electronic access states: "Online Published: December, 2022". Presumably print copy later) Reference page. 
• Legalov, A.A. 2018. Annotated key to weevils of the world. Part 2. Subfamily Molytinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Ukrainian Journal of Ecology 8(4): 340–350. Online. PDF. Reference page. 
• Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) 2013. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera: Vol. 8 Curculionoidea II. Brill, Leiden. 700 pp. Archive-Names indexISBN 978-90-04252-06-6 Reference page. 
• Morimoto, K. & Kojima, H. 2007. Taxonomic notes on the Tribe Mecysolobini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), with descriptions of three new taxa from Japan. Elytra 35(1): 226–237. PDF. Reference page. 
• Pajni, H.R. & Dhir, S. 1987. A generic revision of the subfamily Alcidodinae with the proposal of seven genera (Alcidodinae: Curculionidae: Coleoptera). Research Bulletin (Science) of the Punjab University 38(1-2): 27–34. Reference page.