Dascilloidea Guerin-Meneville , 1843 (1834)

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 : 138

Superfamily Dascilloidea Guerin-Meneville, 1843 (1834)

Dascillidae Guérin-Méneville, 1843: 193 [stem: Dascill-]. Type genus: Dascillus Latreille, 1797. Comment: usage of younger name conserved over Atopoidea Laporte, 1834 (Art. 40.2); although Rhipiceroidea is also an older name for this superfamily, its use for a taxon including the families Dascilidae (including Karumiinae ) and Rhipiceridae is likely to cause some confusion and we therefore continue to use Dascilloidea as valid; the concept of Rhipiceroidea has varied among authors, Crowson (1953) used Rhipiceroidea for the families Rhipiceridae and Callirhipidae , which are not now considered to form a monophyletic group, and Dascilloidea for Dascillidae plus those families now included in Scirtoidea ; the family group name Sandalidae (which is a junior synonym of Rhipiceridae ) was used by Craighead (1921) and Böving and Craighead (1931) for Rhipiceridae in the strict sense, while Emden (1924, 1931, 1933) used the same name for a family which also included those genera now placed in Callirhipidae ; Crowson (1971, 1973b) proposed a reconstituted Dascilloidea for Dascillidae plus Rhipiceridae (sensu stricto) and excluded Callirhipidae from Rhipiceroidea and placed it in another superfamily Artematopoidea (along with Artematopidae (now Artematopodidae ) and Brachypsectridae ); finally, the evidence for placing Dascillidae and Rhipiceridae in the same superfamily is not convincing (especially when the larvae are taken into account) so it is quite possible that Dascilloidea in the sense of Crowson (1971) may cease to exist when more evidence is presented.