Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920

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 : 116

Subfamily Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920

Megalopini Erichson, 1839b: 30 [stem: Megalop-]. Type genus: Megalops Erichson, 1839 [preoccupied genus name, not Megalops Lacepède, 1803 [Pisces], not Megalops Rafinesque, 1815 [Pisces]; syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus.

Megalopsidiini Leng, 1920: 98 [stem: Megalopsidi-]. Type genus: Megalopsidia Leng, 1918 [syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915].

Aulacotrachelinae L. Benick, 1920: 1 [stem: Aulacotrachel-]. Type genus: Aulacotrachelus Benick, 1920 [syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915]. Comment: replacement name for Megalopinae Erichson, 1839 because of the homonymy of the type genus.

Stylopodinae Blackwelder, 1943: 202 [stem: Stylopod-]. Type genus: Stylopodus Benick, 1917 [syn. of Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915]. Comment: name proposed to replace Megalopinae Erichson, 1839 and Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920 because of the synonymy of the type genus.

*Megalopininae Puthz, 1967: 192 [stem: Megalopin-]. Type genus: Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915. Comment: unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1).

Megalopininae Naomi, 1986: 344 [stem: Megalopin-]. Type genus: Megalopinus Eichelbaum, 1915. Comment: name proposed to replace Megalopinae Erichson, 1839 and Megalopsidiinae Leng, 1920 because of the synonymy of the type genus.