A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification Author Smith, Andrew B. T. Canadian Museum of Nature, P. O. Box 3443, Station D Ottawa, ON K 1 P 6 P 4, CANADA asmith@mus-nature.ca text The Coleopterists Bulletin 2006 mo 5 2006-12-01 60 144 204 journal article 10.1649/0010-065x(2006)60[144:arotfn]2.0.co;2 1938-4394 4911861 FADCBF89-3C12-46F5-90D2-8E8A7031D876 Tribe SERICINI Kirby, 1837 Original spelling and citation: Sericidae Kirby 1837: 128 Type genus: Serica MacLeay, 1819: 146 Remark: Hope (1837) and Kirby (1837) both used Sericidae in the same year and the Hope (1837) paper refers to the Kirby (1837) paper. This is internal evidence in Hope (1837) that the Kirby (1837) paper was published first so Kirby should be credited with authorship of this family-group name.