Acanthoscelidina Bridwell, 1946

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 : 219

Subtribe Acanthoscelidina Bridwell, 1946

Acanthoscelidini Bridwell, 1946: 54, in key [stem: Acanthoscelid-]. Type genus: Acanthoscelides Schilsky, 1905. Comment: First Reviser ( Acanthoscelidina Bridwell, 1946 vs Bruchidiina Bridwell, 1946) not determined, current usage maintained; description of family-group name not unequivocal (Art. 13.1.1) but name treated as available (Art. 13.2.1); Bridwell (1946: 53) mentioned that he wanted to establish the two new tribes Bruchidiini and Acanthoscelidini but he followed by saying that it was "premature to attempt a diagnosis" of these tribes; both tribal names were included in his key (p. 54) but their identification was not unequivocal; Bradley (1947: 37) noted that the new tribes Bruchidiini and Acanthoscelidini were not diagnosed adequately by Bridwell (1946), however he did not cite Article 13 of the then current edition of the Code of Zoological nomenclature to treat those names as unavailable; since Bruchidiini and Acanthoscelidini have been used as valid and attributed to Bridwell (1946) by subsequent authors, e.g., Bottimer (1968: 1028 and 1015 respectively), we have also treated those names as available here.

Bruchidiini Bridwell, 1946: 54, in key [stem: Bruchidi-]. Type genus: Bruchidius Schilsky, 1905. Comment: description of family-group name not unequivocal (Art. 13.1.1) but name treated as available (Art. 13.2.1); see comment under Acanthoscelidini Bridwell, 1946.