Atractocerinae Laporte, 1840

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 : 164

Subfamily Atractocerinae Laporte, 1840

Atractocerites Laporte, 1840a: 290 [stem: Atractocer-]. Type genus: Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1802. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Brues and Melander (1932: 23, as Atractoceridae ), generally accepted as in Cuccodoro (2007: 363, as Atractocerinae ).