Melolonthina Leach, 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 : 128

Subtribe Melolonthina Leach, 1819

* Melolonthides Baudet-Lafarge, 1809: 12 [stem: Melolonth-]. Type genus: Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1994a)]. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): subsequently used in latinized form but not generally attributed to Baudet-Lafarge (1809).

Melolonthidae Leach, 1819: 189 [stem: Melolonth-]. Type genus: Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1994a)]. Comment: published in June 1819; this family-group name was also used in the same year by W. S. MacLeay (1819 [November]: 79, as Melolonthidae ).

Polyphyllidae H. C. C. Burmeister, 1855: 397 [stem: Polyphyll-]. Type genus: Polyphylla Harris, 1841.

Psilonychides Péringuey, 1904: 184 [stem: Psilonych-]. Type genus: Psilonychus H. C. C. Burmeister, 1855.