Pterocolinae Lacordaire, 1865

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 : 248

Subfamily Pterocolinae Lacordaire, 1865

Pterocolides Lacordaire, 1865: 190 [stem: Pterocol-]. Type genus: Pterocolus Schönherr, 1833 [preoccupied genus name, not Pterocolus Say, 1831 [ Coleoptera : Attelabidae : Pterocolinae ]; syn. of Pterocolus Say, 1831]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Pascoe (1870b: 437, as Pterocolinae ), generally accepted as in Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999: 44, as Pterocolinae ); permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus; although strictly speaking the type genus is a junior homonym, and thus cannot be used as valid, to preserve stability, we are considering this as a valid name here; an application to the Commission is necessary to officially conserve usage of this family-group name.