Coloninae Horn, 1880 (1859)

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 : 93

Subfamily Coloninae Horn, 1880 (1859)

Myloechina C. G. Thomson, 1859: 60 [stem: Myloech-]. Type genus: Myloechus Latreille, 1807 [syn. of Colon Herbst, 1797]. Comment: use of younger family-group name Coloninae G. H. Horn, 1880 conserved (Art. 40.2); see Newton and Thayer (1992: 36).

Colones G. H. Horn, 1880b: 266 [stem: Colon-]. Type genus: Colon Herbst, 1797 [the original spelling Kolon was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Suppressed Generic Names in Zoology, Colon was considered the correct original spelling of the genus and placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1995b)]. Comment: use of family-group name conserved over Myloechinae C. G. Thomson, 1859 (Art. 40.2); see Newton and Thayer (1992: 36).