DINEUTINI, Desmarest, 1851

Gustafson, Grey T. & Miller, Kelly B., 2013, On the family- and genus-series nomina in Gyrinidae Latreille, 1810 (Coleoptera, Adephaga), Zootaxa 3731 (1), pp. 77-105 : 94

DINEUTINI, Desmarest, 1851

Ochs (1926, 1927) presented a comprehensive documentation of Dineutus using the tribe name DINEUTINI without author attribution. This action seemingly implied that Ochs (1926 a) was the first to use it, but harder evidence Ochs did in fact consider himself author of DINEUTINI comes from his checklist in the Catologue of Indian Insects where he credits himself with the name (Ochs, 1930 b: 8). Ochs was also credited with the family-group nomen DINEUTINI by Balfour-Browne (1945). Recently, Bouchard et al. (2011) discovered that the family-series nomen was actually first erected by Desmarest (1851). The discovery of DINEUTINI Desmarest, 1851 renders DINEUTINI Ochs, 1926 a a junior homonym. However, Ochs separation of the two genera, Porrorhynchus and Dineutus , into their own tribe, the DINEUTINI, has been treated as valid, followed by Folkerts (1979) who downgraded it to subtribe rank, until it was most recently synonymized with ENHYDRINI by Miller & Bergsten (2012). For discussion of the use of DINEUTINI, see the discussion under ENHYDRINI Régimbart, 1882.