Subfamily NEMOGNATHINAE Laporte, 1840

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• Nemognathites Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1840. Histoire naturelle des insectes coléoptères. Avec une introduction renfermant l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés, par M. Brullé. Tome deuxième. Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés, annelidés, crustacés, arachnides, myriapodes et insectes. Tome troisième. Paris : P. Duménil. Vol. 2. 563 pp. + 38 pls. [Date published 26 Dec 1840] [280] [Nemognathinae Laporte, 1840 placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology and given precedence over Horiinae Latreille, 1802 (ICZN 1999)].

  Type genus:

   Nemognatha Illiger, 1807 [as Nemognathus, unjustified emendation of type genus name by Latreille (1829), not in prevailing usage; Nemognatha Illiger, 1807 placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1999)].

  Secondary source:

   ICZN 1999. Opinion 1918. Meloidae Gyllenhal, 1810 and Nemognathinae Castelnau, 1840 (Insecta, Coleoptera): given precedence over Horiidae Latreille, 1802. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56: 89–91.

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MELOIDIDAE: Zonitis Fabricius, 1775 — Bologna, M.A., Turco, F. & Pinto, J.D. 2013. The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Australasia: a generic review, descriptions of new taxa, and a challenge to the current definition of subfamilies posed by exceptional variation in male genitalia. Invertebrate Systematics 27: 391–427

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