Eucnemidae Eschscholtz, 1829

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 : 144

Family Eucnemidae Eschscholtz, 1829

Eucnemides Eschscholtz, 1829a: 10 [stem: Eucnem-]. Type genus: Eucnemis Ahrens, 1812. Comment: the name Melasidae Fleming, 1821 has priority over this name, however Muona and Alaruikka (2007: 32) mentioned that an application has been sent to the Commission to conserve usage of Eucnemidae over the older name Melasidae for reasons of stability, we follow current usage until the case is resolved (also see Appendix 6).