Mesoptiliini 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 : 269

Tribe Mesoptiliini Lacordaire, 1863

Mesoptilides Lacordaire, 1863: 563 [stem: Mesoptili-]. Type genus: Mesoptilius Labram and Imhoff, 1845. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Pascoe (1870b: 436, as Mesoptilinae [incorrect stem formation]), generally accepted as in Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal (1999: 193, as Mesoptiliini ); incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage.

Cnemidophorini Hustache, 1937: 199, in key [stem: Cnemidophor-]. Type genus: Cnemidophorus Schönherr, 1835 [preoccupied genus name, not Cnemidophorus Wagler, 1830 [Reptilia]; syn. of Cnemidontus Schenkling, 1935]. Comment: permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus.

Cnemidontini Kuschel, 1955: 271 [stem: Cnemidont-]. Type genus: Cnemidontus Schenkling, 1935. Comment: replacement name for Cnemidophorini Hustache, 1937 because of the homonymy of the type genus.