Subfamily Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962

1953 Sphaeromicola .— Rioja: 289, 290 (D, H).

1961 Sphaeromicola Paris, 1916 .—Howe: Q300 (C).

1962 Sphaeromicolinae, new subfamily.—Hart: 124, 125, 139 (C, K, T).

1962 Sphaeromicola .—Howe: 80 (C).

1963 Sphaeromicola Paris 1916 .—Hartmann: 145 (C).

1964 Sphaeromicola Paris 1916 .—Hartmann: 586 (C).

1964 Sphaeromicola .—Neale: 286 (D).

1968 Sphaeromicolinae .—Ferguson: 499 (C).

1969a Sphaeromicola Paris, 1916 .—Hart & Hart: 182 (R).

1969a Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hart & Hart: 182, 183, Fig. 5 (C, R).

1971a Sphaeromicolinae .—Danielopol: 190, 191, 201 [in part], 206 (D, R).

1971a Sphaeromicolini.—Danielopol: 201, 202, nomen nudum (R).

1971b Sphaeromicolini (Hart.).—Danielopol: 181, 190 (C, R).

1971 Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hobbs Jr.: 2, 3, 4, 8, 19, 44–45, 54 [and as Sphaeromiocolinae, erroneous spelling] (C, D, K).

1973 Sphaeromicolinae .—McKenzie: 144, 148, Fig. 5 (C, D).

1974 Subfamily Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hart & Hart: ix, 1, 2, 14, 15 [and as Sphaeromicola], 16, 17, 162 (C, D, E, H, K, T).

1974 Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hartmann & Puri: 50 (C).

1975 Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hart & Hart: 2, 60–61 (C, D, H).

1975 Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hobbs: 280 (C, D, H).

1977b Sphaeromicolini.—Danielopol: 22, 23, Fig. 1 (C).

1977b Sphaeromicolinae .—Danielopol: 21, 22, 23, Fig. 1 (C).

1977 Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Hobbs & Peters: 16 (C).

1977b Sphaeromicola .—Danielopol: 22, 34 (C).

1978 Sphaeromicola .—Hart: 724, 728 (C, D, K, R).

1978 Sphaeromicolinae .—Hart: 727 (K).

1985 Sphaeromicolinae .—Danielopol & Hart: 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, Figs. 1, 3 (C, D).

1985 Sphaeromicolinae .—Hart et al.: 1, 4, 6 (C, E).

1994 Sphaeromicolinae .—Danielopol et al.: 121 [as Sphaeromicoiinae, erroneous spelling], 122 (D, R).

1998 Sphaeromicolinae .—Horne, Danielopol & Martens: 162 (T).

2000 Sphaeromicolina Hart, 1962.—Meisch: 464 (C, D, H, R, T).

2009 Spheromicolinae Hart, 1962.—Pieri et al.: 6, erroneous spelling (C).

2011 Sphaeromicolinae .—Williams et al.: 276 (C).

2012 Sphaeromicolinae Hart 1962 .—Karanovic: 116 (C).

2014a Sphaeromicolinae Hart, 1962 .—Mestre, Monrós & Mesquita-Joanes: 928, 931, 951 (C, D).

2014b Sphaeromicolinae .—Mestre et al.: 235 (C, H, R).

Remarks: Curiously, Neale (1964: 286) reported the distribution of Sphaeromicola (= Sphaeromicolinae) as southern Europe, Mexico, and Africa. The only entocytherid that has been reported from Africa is the microsyssistrine Microsyssitria nhlabane, described in 1984.