Acrotrichinae Reitter, 1909 (1856)

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 : 92

Subfamily Acrotrichinae Reitter, 1909 (1856)

Trichopterygia Erichson, 1845: 13 [stem: Trichopteryg-]. Type genus: Trichopteryx Kirby, 1826 [preoccupied genus name, not Trichopteryx Hübner, 1825 [ Lepidoptera ]; syn. of Acrotrichis Motschulsky, 1848]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus.

Cleopteriidae Gistel, 1856a: 360 [stem: Cleopteri-]. Type genus: Cleopterium Gistel, 1856 [syn. of Acrotrichis Motschulsky, 1848]. Comment: use of younger family-group name Acrotrichinae Reitter, 1909 conserved (Art. 40.2) (see Newton and Thayer 1992: 44).

Acrotrichini Reitter, 1909: 272 [stem: Acrotrich-]. Type genus: Acrotrichis Motschulsky, 1848. Comment: use of family-group name conserved over Cleopteriinae Gistel, 1856 (Art. 40.2) (see Newton and Thayer 1992: 44).

Nephanini Portevin, 1929: 573, in key [stem: Nephan-]. Type genus: Nephanes C. G. Thomson, 1859 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1985b)].