Omalisidae Lacordaire, 1857

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 : 156-157

Family Omalisidae Lacordaire, 1857

*Homalises Motschulsky, 1849: 55 [stem: Omalis-]. Type genus: Omalisus Geoffroy, 1762 [as Homalisus , unjustified emendation of type genus name by Illiger (1801: 139), not in prevailing usage; placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1994a)]. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form but not generally attributed to Motschulsky (1849).

Homalisides Lacordaire, 1857: 303 [stem: Omalis-]. Type genus: Omalisus Geoffroy, 1762 [as Homalisus , unjustified emendation of type genus name by Illiger (1801: 139), not in prevailing usage; placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1994a)]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Kiesenwetter (1860: 442, as Homalisidae [incorrect stem formation]), generally accepted as in Lawrence and Newton (1995: 856, as Omalisidae ); incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.