Leiodesidae Fleming, 1821: 51

Peck, Stewart B. & Newton, Alfred F., 2017, An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico), The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 211-258 : 215

Leiodesidae Fleming, 1821: 51 (incorrect original

spelling) [stem: Leiod -]. Type genus: Leiodes

Latreille, 1797.

Comment. Incorrect original stem formation; not in prevailing usage. See Halliday and Majka (2010) for discussion of availability of the names Leiodes Latreille, 1796 and Leiodidae Fleming, 1821 .

Notes. Used by various authors to include, in varying senses, Agathidiidae , Anisotomidae , Camiaridae, Catopidae , Cholevidae , Colonidae , Leptodiridae , Liodesidae, Liodidae , Leptinidae , and Platypsyllidae . For keys to North American subfamilies, tribes, and most genera, see Peck (2000a). Updates with additional genera are in Miller and Wheeler (2005a) for the tribe Agathidiini, Peck and Cook (2007) for the tribe Anemadini, Peck and Cook (2009) for the tribe Sogdini , and Peck and Cook (2011) for the subfamily Catopocerinae . For Latin America and the West Indies, see Peck et al. (1998) and Peck and Cook (2014).