Vesperinae Mulsant, 1839

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 : 196

Subfamily Vesperinae Mulsant, 1839

Vesperaires Mulsant, 1839: 214 [stem: Vesper-]. Type genus: Vesperus Dejean, 1821. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Heyne and Taschenberg (1907: 240, as Vesperini ), generally accepted as in Villiers (1978: 67, as Vesperini ).