Microsilphinae Crowson, 1950

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 : 95-96

Subfamily Microsilphinae Crowson, 1950

*Micragyrtini Blackwelder, 1944: 84 [stem: Micragyrt-]. Type genus: Micragyrtes Champion, 1918 [syn. of Microsilpha Broun, 1886]. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1); originally proposed as a tribe of Leiodidae .

Microsilphinae Crowson, 1950: 279, in key [stem: Microsilph-]. Type genus: Microsilpha Broun, 1886. Comment: originally proposed as a subfamily of Silphidae .

Micragyrtini Jeannel, 1962b: 484 [stem: Micragyrt-]. Type genus: Micragyrtes Champion, 1918 [syn. of Microsilpha Broun, 1886]. Comment: originally proposed as a tribe of Silphidae .