Colydiinae Billberg, 1820

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 : 177

Subfamily Colydiinae Billberg, 1820

Colydiides Billberg, 1820b: 394 [stem: Colydi-]. Type genus: Colydium Fabricius, 1792 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1995c)]. Comment: name placed on Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology (as Colydiidae Erichson, 1842) and given precedence over Orthocerinae Blanchard, 1845 and Cerylonidae Billberg, 1820 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (ICZN 1995c); usage of the younger name Zopheridae Solier, 1834 conserved over this name (Art. 35.5).