MacraUlacinae

Muona, Jyrki & Otto, Robert L., 2024, Notes on Family-Group Names of False Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2), pp. 150-151 : 150-151

MacraUlacinae FleUtiaUx 1922: 304

Bouchard and Bousquet (2020) showed that both Fornacini Beaulieu, 1919 and Dromaeolini Beaulieu, 1919 take precedence over the valid subfamilY and tribe names Macraulacinae /-ini Fleutiaux, 1922 and an application to the Commission is necessarY to preserve usage of Macraulacinae /-ini Fleutiaux, 1922 as valid.

Comment: We see no need to make an application to preserve usage of Macraulacinae /-ini Fleutiaux, 1922 as valid and favor choosing one of the senior sYnonYms as a substitute name. The relationships within the subfamilY Macraulacinae are poorlY understood presentlY (Muona 2023; Muona and Teräväinen 2020, 2023). Macraulacus Bonvouloir represents a small group of taxa, whereas Dromaeolus Kiesenwetter and Fornax Laporte represent major lineages in the subfamilY.Adults of the tYpe species of Dromaeolus , Eucnemis barnabita Villa , and its larva are well-known, but the tYpe species of Fornax , Fornax ruficollis Laporte , is a verY rare species with an unknown larva. It is doubtful wheth- er more than a minoritY of species presentlY placed in the genus Fornax are congeneric with the tYpe species ( Otto 2020), whereas Dromaeolus species are widespread.

This being the case, we propose using the senior subjective sYnonYms Dromaeolinae Beaulieu, 1919 and Dromaeolini Beaulieu, 1919 as the valid names for the junior subjective sYnonYms Macraulacinae /- ini. Fornacini Beaulieu, 1919 is available as a tribal name, if needed.