Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810

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 : 192

Family Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810

Melooides Gyllenhal, 1810: 481 [stem: Melo-]. Type genus: Meloe Linnaeus, 1758 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1999c)]. Comment: given precedence over the older name Horiidae Latreille, 1802 and placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology (ICZN 1999c).