Elaterini Leach, 1815

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 : 155

Tribe Elaterini Leach, 1815

Elaterides Leach, 1815: 85 [stem: Elater-]. Type genus: Elater Linnaeus, 1758.

Arneidae Gistel, 1848: [6] [stem: Arne-]. Type genus: Arneus Gistel, 1848 [syn. of Sericus Eschscholtz, 1829].

Steatoderidae Gistel, 1848: [5] [stem: Steatoder-]. Type genus: Steatoderus Dejean, 1833 [syn. of Elater Linnaeus, 1758].

Amphilabridae Gistel, 1856a: 367 [stem: Amphilabr-]. Type genus: Amphilabris Gistel, 1834 [syn. of Sericus Eschscholtz, 1829].

Ludiides Lacordaire, 1857: 197 [stem: Ludi-]. Type genus: Ludius Berthold, 1827 [syn. of Elater Linnaeus, 1758]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form and generally accepted as in J. L. LeConte (1861: 168, as Ludii ); the junior homonym Ludiini Aurivillius, 1904 (type genus Ludia Wallengren, 1865) in Lepidoptera : Saturniidae was replaced by Micragonini Cockerell, 1914 (see Oberprieler 1997: 146).

Hypodesites Candèze, 1863: 242 [stem: Hypodese-]. Type genus: Hypodesis Latreille, 1834. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Champion (1896: 490, as Hypodesini ), generally accepted as in Heyne and Taschenberg (1905: 164, as Hypodesini ); incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.

Sericosomina Hyslop, 1917: 258 [stem: Sericosom-]. Type genus: Sericosomus Dejean, 1833 [syn. of Sericus Eschscholtz, 1829].

*Dolerosomini Dolin, 1975b: 1632 [stem: Dolerosom-]. Type genus: Dolerosomus Motschulsky, 1859. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).