Lyttini Solier, 1851

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 : 192-193

Tribe Lyttini Solier, 1851

Cantharidiae Latreille, 1802: 185 [stem: Canthar-]. Type genus: Cantharis sensu Latreille, 1802 [not Cantharis Linnaeus, 1758; syn. of Lytta Fabricius, 1775]. Comment: based on a misidentified type genus, name treated here as invalid until an application is submitted to the Commission to suppress it for the Principles of Priority and Homonymy (Art. 65.2.1); also see Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856.

*Lyttes Motschulsky, 1849: 59 [stem: Lytt-]. Type genus: Lytta Fabricius, 1775. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form but not generally attributed to Motschulsky (1849).

Lyttoides Solier, 1851: 278 [stem: Lytt-]. Type genus: Lytta Fabricius, 1775. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Gistel (1856a: 385, as Lyttadae [incorrect stem formation]), generally accepted as in Selander (1991: 78, as Lyttina ); although this is not the oldest name for the tribe, we recommend that an application be submitted to the Commission to suppress Cantharini Latreille, 1802 because it is based on a misidentified type genus (Art. 65.2.1).

*Alosimates Mulsant, 1857: 358 [stem: Alosim-]. Type genus: Alosimus Mulsant, 1857. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form, e.g., Selander (1991: 65, as Alosimina ), but not generally accepted as valid; Selander’s name is also unavailable, it was pro posed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).

*Lydini Wellman, 1908: 424 [stem: Lyd-]. Type genus: Lydus Dejean, 1821. Comment: family-group name unavailable (Art. 11.6): originally published as synonym and not made available subsequently; Wellman correctly pointed out that the family-group for a taxon based on Lydus should be Lydini , however he did not want to use this family-group name since the name Lydidae Newman, 1834 (type genus Lyda Fabricius, 1805) is available for a group of Hymenoptera : Symphyta .

Sybarides Wellman, 1910: 221 [stem: Sybare-]. Type genus: Sybaris Stephens, 1832. Comment: incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.

Lydina Kaszab, 1959: 82 [stem: Lyd-]. Type genus: Lydus Dejean, 1821. Comment: Kaszab proposed the subtribe name Lydina without reference to the comment by Wellman (1908) and his family-group name has been used as valid in Meloidae since (e.g., Turco et al. 2006); the name Lydidae Newman, 1834 (type genus Lyda Fabricius, 1805) is available for a group of Hymenoptera : Symphyta ; this case is to be referred to the Commission to remove the homonymy (Art. 55.3.1).

Prolyttini Selander, 1960: 25 [stem: Prolytt-]. Type genus: Prolytta Kaszab, 1959.