Athyreini Lynch Arribalzaga , 1878

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 : 121

Tribe Athyreini Lynch Arribalzaga, 1878

* Athyreites Blanchard, 1845a: 221 [stem: Athyre-]. Type genus: Athyreus W. S. MacLeay, 1819 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1985a)]. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form but not generally attributed to Blanchard (1845a) (see A. B. T. Smith 2006: 148).

Athyreitae Lynch Arribálzaga, 1878: 145 [stem: Athyre-]. Type genus: Athyreus W. S. MacLeay, 1819 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1985a)]. Comment: name previously attributed to Howden and Martínez (1963).

Athyreini Howden and Martínez, 1963: 346 [stem: Athyre-]. Type genus: Athyreus W. S. MacLeay, 1819 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1985a)]. Comment: family-group name proposed as new without reference to Athyreides Blanchard, 1845 or Athyreitae Lynch Arribálzaga, 1878.