Chironinae Blanchard, 1845

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 : 125

Subfamily Chironinae Blanchard, 1845

Chironites Blanchard, 1845a: 225 [stem: Chiron-]. Type genus: Chiron W. S. MacLeay, 1819. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Harold (1868: 278, as Chironidae ), generally accepted as in A. B. T. Smith (2006: 157, as Chironinae ).