Onthophilinae MacLeay, 1819

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 : 90

Subfamily Onthophilinae MacLeay, 1819

Onthophilidae W. S. MacLeay, 1819: 25 [stem: Onthophil-]. Type genus: Onthophilus Leach, 1817.

Scolytini Jakobson, 1911a: 652 [stem: Scolyt-]. Type genus: Scolytus Müller, 1764 [preoccupied genus name, not Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762 [ Coleoptera : Curculionidae ]; syn. of Onthophilus Leach, 1817]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus.