Mecocerini Lacordaire, 1865

Bouchard, Patrice, Bousquet, Yves, Davies, Anthony E., Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., Lawrence, John F., Lyal, Chris H. C., Newton, Alfred F., Reid, Chris A. M., Schmitt, Michael, Ślipinski, S. Adam & Smith, Andrew B. T., 2011, Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, pp. 1-972 : 242-243

Tribe Mecocerini Lacordaire, 1865

Mecocerides Lacordaire, 1865: 493 [stem: Mecocer-]. Type genus: Mecocerus Schönherr, 1833 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1972); syn. of Acanthothorax Gaede, 1832]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Kolbe (1897: 288, as Mecocerinae ), generally accepted as in Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999: 31, as Mecocerini ).

Phloeophilides Lacordaire, 1865: 517 [stem: Phloeophil-]. Type genus: Phloeophilus Schönherr, 1833. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form and generally accepted as in Olliff (1891: 75, as Phloeophilides [treated as Latin]); the older name Phloeophilini Kiesenwetter, 1863 [ Cleroidea ] was based on an unjustified emendation, the correct stem for the cleroid family-group name is Phloiophil -.

Cappadocini Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999: 28 [stem: Cappadoc-]. Type genus: Cappadox Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal, 1999 [syn. of Phloeophilus Schönherr, 1833].