Sphenopterini Lacordaire, 1857

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 : 140

Tribe Sphenopterini Lacordaire, 1857

Sphenopterides Lacordaire, 1857: 68 [stem: Sphenopter-]. Type genus: Sphenoptera Dejean, 1833. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Stein (1868: 62, as Sphenopterini ), generally accepted as in Bellamy (2008a: 23, as Sphenopterini ).