Dorcasominae Lacordaire, 1868

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 : 204

Subfamily Dorcasominae Lacordaire, 1868

Dorcasomides Lacordaire, 1868: 456 [stem: Dorcasom-]. Type genus: Dorcasomus Audinet-Serville, 1834. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Kolbe (1897: 299, as Dorcasominae ), generally accepted as in Aurivillius (1912: 251, as Dorcasomini ).