Steropinae Jacquelin du Val, 1863

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 : 193

Subfamily Steropinae Jacquelin du Val, 1863

Steropites Jacquelin du Val, 1863: 365 [stem: Sterop-]. Type genus: Steropes Steven, 1806. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Jakobson (1915: 1022, as Steropina ), generally accepted as in Lawrence and Newton (1995: 901, as Steropinae ); the older name Steropinae Dana, 1854 is available in copepods (type genus Sterope Goodsir, 1845) although it was recently treated as a nomen oblitum by Huys (2009: 28); this case is to be referred to the Commission to remove the homonymy (Art. 55.3.1).