Penthinae Lacordaire, 1859

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 : 175

Subfamily Penthinae Lacordaire, 1859

Penthides Lacordaire, 1859: 456 [stem: Penth-]. Type genus: Penthe Newman, 1838. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by G. H. Horn (1888: 43, as Penthini ), generally accepted as in Young and Pollock (2002: 415, as Penthinae ).