Agrypninae Candeze , 1857

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 : 147

Subfamily Agrypninae Candeze, 1857 nomen protectum

Agrypnides Candèze, 1857: 17 [stem: Agrypn-]. Type genus: Agrypnus Eschscholtz, 1829. Comment: nomen protectum (see Appendix 1); Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 given precedence for subfamily name over Oophorinae Gistel, 1848 (Art. 35.5).