Amblycerina Bridwell, 1932

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 : 218

Subtribe Amblycerina Bridwell, 1932

Spermophagidae Crotch, 1873b: 93 [stem: Spermophag-]. Type genus: Spermophagus sensu G. H. Horn, 1873 [not Spermophagus Schönherr, 1833; syn. of Amblycerus Thunberg, 1815]. Comment: based on a misidentified type genus, name treated here as invalid until an application is submitted to the Commission to suppress it for the Principles of Priority and Homonymy (Art. 65.2.1); also see Spermophagini Borowiec, 1987 below.

Amblycerinae Bridwell, 1932: 103, in key [stem: Amblycer-]. Type genus: Amblycerus Thunberg, 1815. Comment: although this is the oldest name for the tribe, we recommend that an application be sent to the Commission in order to conserve usage of Amblycerina Bridwell, 1932 because the older name Spermophagina Crotch, 1873 is based on a misidentified type genus (Art. 65.2.1); MAAZ and CHCL will submit an application to the Commission in order to conserve the current concept of Amblycerus Thunberg, 1815 following the discovery of an overlooked type species designation that would alter the concept of the genus (also see Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999: 8, 23)).