Desmocerini Blanchard, 1845

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 : 203

Tribe Desmocerini Blanchard, 1845

Desmocerites Blanchard, 1845b: 163 [stem: Desmocer-]. Type genus: Desmocerus Dejean, 1821. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by J. Thomson (1861: 159, as Desmoceritae ), generally accepted as in Monné (1995b: 1, as Desmocerini ).