Placusini Mulsant and Rey, 1871

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 : 112

Tribe Placusini Mulsant and Rey, 1871

Placusates Mulsant and Rey, 1871c: 102 [stem: Placus-]. Type genus: Placusa Erichson, 1837. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Fenyes (1918: 17, as Placusae ), generally accepted as in Newton and Thayer (1992: 54, as Placusini ).

*Euvirae Seevers, 1978: 272 [stem: Euvir-]. Type genus: Euvira Sharp, 1883. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).