HEXODONTINI Lacordaire, 1856

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 : 175

Tribe HEXODONTINI Lacordaire, 1856

Original spelling and citation: Hexodontides Lacordaire 1856: 391

Type genus: Hexodon Olivier, 1789: 1

Remark: Lacordaire (1856: 391) and Imhoff (1856: 17) both used Hexodontides in the same year and the Imhoff (1856) paper refers to the Lacordaire (1856) paper (numerous times). This is internal evidence in Imhoff (1856) that the Lacordaire (1856) paper was published first so Lacordaire should be credited with authorship of this family-group name. Although this family-group name was not originally proposed in a Latinized form, it has subsequently been Latinized by numerous authors and should be considered available under Article 11.7.2.