Psepheninae Lacordaire, 1854

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 : 143

Subfamily Psepheninae Lacordaire, 1854

Eurypalpini J. L. LeConte, 1852a: 41 [stem: Eurypalp-]. Type genus: Eurypalpus J. L. LeConte, 1852 [preoccupied genus name, not Eurypalpus Macquart, 1835 [ Diptera ]; syn. of Psephenus Haldeman, 1853]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus.

Psephenides Lacordaire, 1854b: 497 [stem: Psephen-]. Type genus: Psephenus Haldeman, 1853. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Imhoff (1856: xv, as Psephenidae ), generally accepted as in Hansen (1996: 139, as Psephenidae ).