Protactinae Heer, 1847

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 : 121

†Subfamily Protactinae Heer, 1847

Protactiden Heer, 1847: 28 [stem: Protact-]. Type genus: Protactus Heer, 1847. Comment: original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Bronn (1848: 1045, as Protactidae ), generally accepted as in Herman (2001: 3839, as Protactinae ).