Genus MELANOPHILA Eschscholtz 1829
Buprestis (Melanophila) Eschscholtz 1829:9.
Melanophila: Mannerheim 1837:69.
    Type species: Buprestis acuminata DeGeer 1774 (fixed by subsequent designation: Opinion 1826, ICZN 1996b:60).
Buprestis (Oxypteris) Kirby 1837:160.
    Type species: Buprestis appendiculata Fabricius 1793 (fixed by original designation).
Apatura Laporte & Gory 1837:1 (preocc. by Apatura Fabricius 1807).
    Type species: Buprestis appendiculata Fabricius 1793 (fixed by subsequent designation: Desmarest in d'Orbigny 1841: 641).

acuminata (DeGeer) 1774:133 (Buprestis).
        syn. acuta (Gmelin) 1778:1939 (Buprestis).
        syn. acuminata (Thunberg) 1787:32 (Buprestis).
        syn. appendiculata (Fabricius) 1793:210 (Buprestis).
        syn. morio (Paykull) 1799:230 (Buprestis).
        syn. longipes (Say) 1823:164 (Buprestis).
        syn. immaculata Mannerheim 1837:70.
        syn. pecchiolii (Gory & Laporte) 1839:33 (Anthaxia).
        syn. assimilis LeConte 1850:227.
        syn. rugata LeConte 1857:7.
        syn. summifex (Gistel) 1857:12 (Phaenops).
        syn. amica Gistel 1857:38.
        syn. opaca LeConte 1860b:213.
        syn. anthaxoides Marquet 1876:368.
        syn. obscurata Lewis 1893a:331.
atra Gory 1841:74.
        syn. nigra Dugès 1891:8.
atropurpurea (Say) 1823:160 (Buprestis).
caudata (Laporte & Gory) 1837:8 (Apatura).
consputa LeConte 1857b:44.
cockerellae Wickham 1912:17. (fossil)
coriacea Kerremans 1894d:468.
        syn. helferi Obenberger 1922b:95.
        syn. corporaali Obenberger 1924c:105.
cuspidata (Klug) 1829:No. 34, plate 3, fig. 8 (Buprestis).
        syn. nigrita (Fabricius) 1798:134 (Buprestis).
        syn. regalis (Fabricius) 1801:187 (Buprestis).
        syn. aequalis Mannerheim 1837:71.
        syn. oxyura Marquet 1874:30.
        syn. aerata Costa 1882:112.
        syn. acutespina Reitter 1893:175.
        syn. jakovlevi Semenov-Tian-Shanskij 1900:589.
        syn. nigrita Escalera 1914:205.
gestroi Obenberger 1923e:82.
handlirschi Wickham 1912:17. (fossil)
heeri Wickham 1914a:260. (fossil)
ignicola Champion 1918:200.
notata (Laporte & Gory) 1837:4 (Apatura).
        syn. luteosignata Mannerheim 1837:70.
        syn. leuteosignata (Ziegler) 1846:267 (Phaenops).
        syn. hungarica Csiki 1905:579.
        syn. elegans Sloop 1937:7. n
occidentalis Obenberger 1928l:209.
unicolor Gory 1841:73.
        syn. lugubrina (Fåhraeus in Boheman) 1851:325 (Phaenops).