Sphindidae Jacquelin du Val, 1860

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 : 166

Family Sphindidae Jacquelin du Val, 1860

Sphindides Jacquelin du Val, 1860: 224 [stem: Sphind-]. Type genus: Sphindus Dejean, 1821 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1997)]. Comment: this name (as Sphindidae Jacquelin du Val, [1861]) was placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology and ruled under the plenary power that this and other family-group names based on Sphindus Dejean, 1821 are to be given precedence over Aspidiphoridae Kiesenwetter, 1877 (1859) and other family-group names based on Aspidiphorus Dejean, 1821 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (ICZN 1997).