Agathidiidae Westwood, 1838: 10

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 : 230

Agathidiidae Westwood, 1838: 10 [stem: Agathidi -].

Type genus: Agathidium Panzer, 1797 .

Notes. See Miller and Wheeler (2005a) for keys to world genera and Wheeler and Miller (2005) for keys to genera of North and Central America, although this does not contain the genus Gelae Miller and Wheeler. Angelini (2010) is a world catalogue of the tribe. Park et al. (2014) is a phylogeny of the tribe.

Larvae. Kilian (1998).

Distribution. Holarctic, Afrotropical, Oriental, Neotropical ( Mexico to Bolivia).

= Anisotomidae Stephens, 1828: 99 [stem: Anisotom -].

Type genus: Anisotoma Panzer, 1797 .

Comment. Family-group name unavailable ( ICZN 1999: Art. 11.7.1.1), not based on a genus used as valid at the time (Newton and Thayer 1992). = Anisotomidae Reitter, 1884b: 6 [stem: Anisotom -].

Type genus: Anisotoma Panzer, 1797 .

Comment. An application would need to be submitted to the ICZN Commission to suppress Anisotomidae Erichson, 1845 (based on the misidentified type genus Anisotoma sensu Schmidt (1841)) for the Principles of Priority and Homonymy ( ICZN 1999: Art. 65.2.1) if this name were to be used as valid.