Geotrupinae Latreille, 1802

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 : 122

Subfamily Geotrupinae Latreille, 1802

Geotrupini Latreille, 1802: 142 [stem: Geotrup-]. Type genus: Geotrupes Latreille, 1797 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1955b)]. Comment: name placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology (ICZN 1955c, as Geotrupini Latreille, 1806).