Family PTERONYSSIDAE Oudemans, 1941

Pteronyssidae Oudemans, 1941: 177 .

Avenzoariidae (Pteronyssinae) .— Faccini & Atyeo 1981: 24; Gaud & Atyeo 1996: 58.

Pteronyssidae .—Mironov 2001: 6.

Note: Oudemans (1941) proposed Pteronyssidae as a replacement name for Avenzoariidae Oudemans, 1905 . He argued that the name Avenzoariidae was incorrect because it was not based on the oldest genus in the family ( Pteronyssus Robin, 1877). That argument is not nomenclaturally valid, but Oudemans (1941) action accidentally made the name Pteronyssidae available for a new family (Mironov 2001). Subsequent authors (Faccini & Atyeo 1981; Gaud & Atyeo 1996) considered this taxon as a subfamily of Avenzoariidae, and it was later restored to the family level (Mironov 2001; OConnor 2009).