Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
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Bouchard, Patrice
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Bousquet, Yves
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Davies, Anthony E.
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Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.
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Lawrence, John F.
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Lyal, Chris H. C.
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Newton, Alfred F.
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Reid, Chris A. M.
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Schmitt, Michael
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Ślipinski, S. Adam
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Smith, Andrew B. T.
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ZooKeys
2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807
1313-2970-88-1
Tribe
Epicautini Parker and
Boeving
, 1924
Macrobases
J. L. LeConte, 1862: 272 [stem: Macrobase-]. Type genus:
Macrobasis
J. L. LeConte, 1862 [subgenus of
Epicauta
Dejean, 1834]. Comment: incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.
Apterospastides
Wellman, 1910: 221 [stem: Apterospast-]. Type genus:
Apterospasta
J. L. LeConte, 1862 [syn. of
Macrobasis
J. L. LeConte, 1862].
Epicautini
Parker and
Boeving
, 1924: 25 [stem: Epicaut-]. Type genus:
Epicauta
Dejean, 1834. Comment: family-group name previously attributed to Denier (1935); this name is threatened by the two older names
Macrobaseini
J. L. LeConte, 1862 and
Apterospastini
Wellman, 1910; to maintain nomenclatural stability, we believe that an application should be submitted to the Commission to conserve usage of the well-established name
Epicautini
.
*Henoini
Boeving
and Craighead, 1931: 79 [stem: Heno-]. Type genus:
Henous
Haldeman, 1852 [syn. of
Epicauta
Dejean, 1834]. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).