Family PROMECHEILIDAE Lacordaire, 1859

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• Proméchilides Lacordaire, J.T. 1859. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusquici dans cet orde d'insectes. Tome cinquième contenant les familles des ténébrionides, cistélides, nilionides, pythides, mélandryides, lagriides, pédilides, anthicides, pyrochroïdes, mordellides, rhipiphorides, stylopides, meloïdes et oedémérides. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret Atlas 750 pp. [Première partie pp. 1–400, Deuxième partie pp. 401–750] [698] [original vernacular name available (Art. 11.7.2): first used in latinized form by Handlirsch (1925: 594, as Promecheilinae), generally accepted as in Lawrence et al. (2010: 563, as Promecheilidae); incorrect original stem formation, not in prevailing usage].

  Type genus:

   Promecheilus Solier, 1851 [as Promechilus, unjustified emendation of type genus name by Lacordaire (1859: 700), not in prevailing usage].

  Secondary source:

   Handlirsch, A. 1925. Systematische Übersicht. pp. 377–1140 in Schröder, C. (ed.). Handbuch der Zoologie. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 3. [594]; Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, S.A. & Elgueta, D.M. 2010. Promecheilidae Lacordaire 1859 In: Part 38. Coleoptera, beetles. Volume 2: Morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). pp. 563–567 in Leschen, R.A.B., Beutel, R.G., Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, S.A. (Eds). Handbook of zoology. Volume IV. Arthropoda: Insecta. New York and Berlin : W. de Gruyter xiii + 786 pp. [563].
• Perimylopidae St. George, 1939.

  Type genus:

   Perimylops Müller, 1884.
• Parahelopinae Watt, 1975 [invalid name; unavailable family-group name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such description (Art. 13.1)].

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