Prometopiinae

Jelínek, Josef, Hájek, Jiří, Eos, Canon, Mp-, Canon, Bx, Olympus & Ds, Canon, 2020, Review of the Afrotropical species of the genus Prometopia (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Prometopiinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 189-199 : 190

Subfamily Prometopiinae

Two original spellings of the subfamily occur in BÖVING & CRAIGHEAD (1931): Prometopinae in the Key (p. 37); and Prometopiinae in the Conspectus (p. 74), captions to Plate 35 (p. 156) and Index (p. 346). When reinstituting the subfamily, CLINE et al (2014) used the variant Prometopinae without any comments, however since then both spellings have been used in the literature: Prometopinae ( DASGUPTA et al. 2015, JELÍNEK & HÁJEK 2018, LEE et al. 2018), Prometopiinae ( KIREJTSHUK & MANTIČ 2015, GIMMEL & FERRO 2018), or both (LAWRENCE 2016). However, BOUCHARD et al. (2011) had already pointed out that spelling Prometopinae is incorrect as the stem is Prometopi-. Therefore, following the ICZN (1999: Article 32.5.3.1) the correct spelling of Prometopiinae has to be used.