HETEROSTERNINA Bates, 1888

Smith, Andrew B. T., 2006, A Review Of The Family- Group Names For The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) With Corrections To Nomenclature And A Current Classification, The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 5) 60, pp. 144-204 : 171

Subtribe HETEROSTERNINA Bates, 1888

Original spelling and citation: Heterosterninae Bates 1888: 286

Type genus: Heterosternus Dupont, 1832: 10

Synonym: Macropnina Horn, 1866

Original spelling and citation: Macropni Horn 1866: 398

Type genus: Macropnus Horn, 1866: 397

Remark: Although Macropnina has priority over Heterosternina , the later is in prevailing usage and must be considered the valid using a reversal of precedence (Article 23.9). Macropnina has not been used as a valid name since it was first proposed. Therefore, I invoke Article 23.9.2 and provide evidence that Heterosternina has be used as a valid name in at least 25 works, published by at least 10 authors in the immediately preceding 50 years and encompassing a span of not less than 10 years. In compliance with the requirements of the Code, the following list of qualified publications, in chronological order, used Hetero sternina as a valid family-group name, which is sufficient evidence that it is in prevailing usage: Machatschke 1972; Morón 1979; Morón 1983; Morón, Villalobos, and Deloya 1985; Morón 1987; Sigwalt 1987; Jameson 1990; Morón 1990; Morón 1991; Morón and Howden 1992 ; Morón 1993; Morón 1994; Delgado and Blackaller-Bages 1997; Morón 1997; Morón and Blackaller 1997; Jameson 1998; Morón, Deloya, Ramírez-Campos, and Hernández-Rodríguez 1998; Soula 1998; Delgado, Pérez, and Blackaller 2000; Morón and Nogueira 2000; Morón-Ríos and Morón 2001; Curoe and Morón 2003; Smith and Morón 2003; Paucar-Cabrera 2005; and Reyes Novelo and Morón 2005.