Galbitini Muona, 1991

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 : 145-146

Tribe Galbitini Muona, 1991

*Galbites Blanchard, 1845b: 71 [stem: Galb-]. Type genus: Galba Latreille, 1829 [preoccupied genus name, not Galba Schrank, 1803 [Mollusca]; syn. of Galbites Fleutiaux, 1918]. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): not subsequently latinized; if found to be availabe in the future then permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus.

Pterotarsini Cobos, 1965: 294 [stem: Pterotars-]. Type genus: Pterotarsus sensu Guérin-Méneville, 1838 [syn. of Galbites Fleutiaux, 1918]. Comment: proposed as new without reference to Pterotarsini Fleutiaux, 1902 in Elateridae ; based on misidentified type genus; name treated here as invalid until an application is submitted to the Commission to suppress it for the Principle of Priority (Art. 65.2.1).

*Galbitini Muona, 1991a: 167 [stem: Galbit-]. Type genus: Galbites Fleutiaux, 1918. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).

Galbitini Muona, 1991b: 19 [stem: Galbit-]. Type genus: Galbites Fleutiaux, 1918.