Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856 (1815)

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 : 160

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Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856 (1815)
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Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856: [2] 69 [stem: Canthar-]. Type genus: Cantharis Linnaeus, 1758. Comment: this family-group name was used by many authors prior to Imhoff’s usage, these were based on a the misidentified type genus Cantharis (syn. of Lytta Fabricius, 1775) and are therefore not used as valid for this group (see Lawrence and Newton 1995:860); this case should be referred to the Commission to suppress any use of Cantharidae prior to Imhoff (1856); usage of the younger name Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856 over Telephoridae Leach, 1815 is conserved (Art. 40.2) (see Lawrence and Newton 1995: 860).