Petrognathini Blanchard, 1845

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 : 216

Tribe Petrognathini Blanchard, 1845

Petrognathites Blanchard, 1845b: 160 [stem: Petrognath-]. Type genus: Petrognatha Leach, 1819. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Kolbe (1897: 316, as Petrognathinae ), generally accepted as in Aurivillius (1922a: 205, as Petrognathini ).

*Omacanthides Lacordaire, 1872: 447 [stem: Omacanth-]. Type genus: Omacantha Audinet-Serville, 1835 [syn. of Petrognatha Leach, 1819]. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form, e.g., Heyne and Taschenberg (1907: 243, as Omacanthini ), but not generally accepted as valid; Omacanthidae was used as valid by Ienistea (1986: 30) but it was not attributed to Lacordaire (1872); Ienistea’s name is also unavailable, it was proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).