Rhizophaginae Redtenbacher, 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 : 167

Subfamily Rhizophaginae Redtenbacher, 1845

Rhizophagi L. Redtenbacher, 1845: 125 [stem: Rhizophag-]. Type genus: Rhizophagus Herbst, 1793 [the original spelling Ryzophagus was placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Suppressed Generic Names in Zoology, Rhizophagus was considered the correct original spelling of the genus and placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1995b)].