Astenina Hatch, 1957

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 : 118

Subtribe Astenina Hatch, 1957

Suniina Sharp, 1886b: 591 [stem: Suni-]. Type genus: Sunius sensu Erichson, 1839 [not Sunius Stephens, 1829; syn. of Astenus Dejean, 1833]. Comment: based on a misidentified type genus, name treated here as invalid until an application is submitted to the Commission to suppress it for the Principle of Priority (Art. 65.2.1).

Astenina Hatch, 1957: 151, in key [stem: Asten-]. Type genus: Astenus Dejean, 1833. Comment: although this is not the oldest name for the subtribe, we recommend that an application be submitted to the Commission to suppress Suniina Sharp, 1886 because it is based on a misidentified type genus (Art. 65.2.1).