Tapeinini Thomson, 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 : 217

Tribe Tapeinini Thomson, 1857

Tapeinites J. Thomson, 1857b: 41 [stem: Tapein-]. Type genus: Tapeina Lepeletier and Audinet-Serville, 1828. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by J. Thomson (1860a: 73, as Tapeinitae ), generally accepted as in Aurivillius (1922a: 236, as Tapeinini ).