Astathini Thomson, 1864

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 : 214

Tribe Astathini Thomson, 1864

* Tetraophthalmites Blanchard, 1845b: 160 [stem: Tetraophthalm-]. Type genus: Tetraophthalmus Dejean, 1835. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form, e.g., Sama (2010: 56, as Tetraophthalmini ) but not generally accepted as valid.

Astathitae J. Thomson, 1864: 117 [stem: Astath-]. Type genus: Astathes Newman, 1842 [syn. of Tetraophthalmus Dejean, 1835]. Comment: published before October 1864; this family-group name was also used in the same year by Pascoe (1864 [before 3 October]: 8, as Asthateinae [incorrect stem formation]); Pascoe (1864: 81, 85) refers to the publication by J. Thomson (1864) which is further evidence that the publication by Thomson was published first; this tribe name was incorrectly credited to Pascoe (1864) by Bousquet et al. (2009: 26).