kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Coleoptera >
superfamily: Caraboidea >
family: Carabidae Latreille, 1802 >
subfamily: Broscinae Hope, 1838 >
tribe: Broscini Hope, 1838 >
subtribe: Nothobroscina Roig-Juñent, 2000 >
genus: Mecodema Blanchard, 1843 >
New Zealand