Monotomini Laporte, 1840

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 : 168

Tribe Monotomini Laporte, 1840

Monotomites Laporte, 1840b: 377 [stem: Monotom-]. Type genus: Monotoma Herbst, 1793 [nomen protectum; this genus name is a junior homonym of Monotoma Panzer, 1792 nomen oblitum; we provide references to support the conservation of Monotoma Herbst, 1793 as the valid name for this genus (Art. 23.9.1) (see Appendix 1)]. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Agassiz (1846b: 238, as Monotomoidae ), generally accepted as in Pakaluk et al. (1994: 230, as Monotomidae ).