Leiestinae Thomson, 1863

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 : 169

Subfamily Leiestinae Thomson, 1863

Leiestina C. G. Thomson, 1863: 306 [stem: Leiest-]. Type genus: Leiestes Chevrolat, 1836.

Rhanes J. L. LeConte and G. H. Horn, 1883: 120 [stem: Rhanid-]. Type genus: Rhanis J. L. LeConte, 1854 [preoccupied genus name, not Rhanis C. L. Koch, 1846 [Arachnida]; syn. of Rhanidea Strohecker, 1953]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus; incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.

Phymaphorina Jakobson, 1915: 961 [stem: Phymaphor-]. Type genus: Phymaphora Newman, 1838.