Scleropterini Schultze, 1902

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 : 259

Tribe Scleropterini Schultze, 1902

Scleropteridae Schultze, 1902: 209 [stem: Scleropter-]. Type genus: Scleropterus Schönherr, 1825. Comment: the family-group name Scleropterides was used earlier by Solier (1834) in the Heteromera, however, Solier’s name was not based on a genus name and is therefore unavailable; Agassiz (1846a: 146) incorrectly mentions Scleropterus as the type genus of Solier’s name but this is impossible because the family-group and genus-group names belonged to different orders; Agassiz (1846b: 335) also latinized Solier’s name as Scleropteroidae .