Perothopinae Lacordaire, 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 : 144

Subfamily Perothopinae Lacordaire, 1857

Perothopides Lacordaire, 1857: 128 [stem: Perothop-]. Type genus: Perothops Eschscholtz, 1836. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by J. L. LeConte (1861: 162, as Perothopini ), generally accepted as in Lawrence and Newton (1995: 851, as Perothopinae ).