Ambatini Lacordaire, 1863

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 : 258

Tribe Ambatini Lacordaire, 1863

Ambatides Lacordaire, 1863: 512 [stem: Ambat-]. Type genus: Ambates Schönherr, 1836. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Pascoe (1870b: 436, as Ambatinae ), generally accepted as in Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999: 93, as Ambatini ).

*Pteracanthides Chevrolat, 1878: 341 [stem: Pteracanth-]. Type genus: Pteracanthus Dejean, 1835. Comment: original vernacular name unavailable (Art. 11.7.2): not subsequently latinized; a family-group name with the same stem, Pteracanthina J. Thomson, 1864 (type genus Pteracantha Newman, 1838), is available in Coleoptera : Cerambycidae .