Allidiostomatinae Arrow, 1940

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 : 126

Subfamily Allidiostomatinae Arrow, 1940

Idiostominae Arrow, 1904: 747 [stem: Idiostomat-]. Type genus: Idiostoma Arrow, 1904 [preoccupied genus name, not Idiostoma Walsingham, 1882 [ Lepidoptera ]; syn. of Allidiostoma Arrow, 1940]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus; incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.

Allidiostomidae Arrow, 1940: 16 [stem: Allidiostomat-]. Type genus: Allidiostoma Arrow, 1940. Comment: replacement name for Idiostominae Arrow, 1904 because of the homonymy of the type genus; incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage; correction of stem by Lawrence and Newton (1995).