Elateridae Leach, 1815

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 : 146

Family Elateridae Leach, 1815

Elaterides Leach, 1815: 85 [stem: Elater-]. Type genus: Elater Linnaeus, 1758. Comment: the oldest available name for this family is Cebrionidae Latreille, 1802, however Elateridae Leach, 1815 is maintained here pending resolution of an application to the ICZN being prepared by P. J. Johnson (see Lawrence and Newton 1995: 852; P. J. Johnson pers. comm. 2009).