Promecheilidae Lacordaire, 1859

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 : 179

Family Promecheilidae Lacordaire, 1859

Promechilides Lacordaire, 1859: 698 [stem: Promecheil-]. Type genus: Promecheilus Solier, 1851 [as Promechilus , unjustified emendation of type genus name by Lacordaire (1859: 700), not in prevailing usage]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Handlirsch (1925: 594, as Promecheilinae ), generally accepted as in Lawrence et al. (2010: 563, as Promecheilidae ); incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.

Perimylopidae St. George, 1939: 212 [stem: Perimylop-]. Type genus: Perimylops Müller, 1884.

*Parahelopinae Watt, 1975: 424 [stem: Parahelop-]. Type genus: Parahelops C. O. Waterhouse, 1876. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such description (Art. 13.1); this name was used several times subsequently, e.g., Elgueta and Arriagada (1989: 37), Lawrence and Britton (1991: 665), Lawrence (1994: 339), but this taxon name remains unavailable (see Lawrence and Newton 1995: 892).