Elmina Curtis, 1830

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 : 143

Subtribe Elmina Curtis, 1830

*Limniidae Stephens, 1828: 104 [stem: Limni-]. Type genus: Limnius Illiger, 1802. Comment: unavailable family-group name, not based on genus used as valid at the time (see Jäch 1994).

*Limniidae Stephens, 1829a: 5 [stem: Limni-]. Type genus: Limnius Illiger, 1802. Comment: unavailable family-group name, not based on genus used as valid at the time.

Elmidae Curtis, 1830: pl. 294 [stem: Elm-]. Type genus: Elmis Latreille, 1802 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1995d)]. Comment: Elmidae Curtis, 1830 placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology and correct stem ruled to be Elm - (ICZN 1995d).

Limniidae Hope, 1838a: 153 [stem: Limni-]. Type genus: Limnius Illiger, 1802. Comment: family-group name previously attributed to C. G. Thomson (1859) in the literature.