Basiprionotini Gressitt, 1952 (1914)

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 : 220

Tribe Basiprionotini Gressitt, 1952 (1914)

* Priopterites Chapuis, 1875: 367 [stem: Priopter-]. Type genus: Prioptera Hope, 1840 [syn. of Basiprionota Chevrolat, 1836]. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form but not generally attributed to Chapuis (1875).

Priopteritae Spaeth, 1914: (129) [stem: Priopter-]. Type genus: Prioptera Hope, 1840 [syn. of Basiprionota Chevrolat, 1836]. Comment: usage of Basiprionotini Gressitt, 1952 conserved over this name (Art. 40.2).

Basiprionotini Gressitt, 1952: 444 [stem: Basiprionot-]. Type genus: Basiprionota Chevrolat, 1836. Comment: published 8 December 1952; name proposed to replace Priopterini because of synonymy of the type genus; this family-group name was also proposed in the same year by Hincks (1952 [31 December]: 329, in key, as Basiprionotini ); usage of this name over the older name Priopterini Spaeth, 1929 conserved (Art. 40.2).

Epistictinini Hincks, 1952: 329, in key [stem: Epistictin-]. Type genus: Epistictina Hincks, 1950.