Genus Scaria Bolívar, 1887

Scaria Bolivar, 1887: 301 (original description of the genus, S. lineata and S. hamata (originally Acrydium hamatum (De Geer, 1773)), no type species designation). — Giglio-Tos 1898: 35 (description of S. maculata). — Hancock 1902: 162 (description of the genus in English). — Kirby 1910: 60 (catalogued). — Bruner 1910: 140 (key to the species). — Günther 1940: 472 (catalogued). — Yin et al. 1996: 907 (catalogued). — Otte 1997: 6 (catalogued). — Buzzetti & Devriese 2007: 45 (catalogued).— Buzzetti & Carotti 2008: 42 (catalogued). — Cardona Granda 2012: 114 (a photo guide). — Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona Granda 2015: 456 (a key to the species). — Storozhenko 2019: 105 (catalogued). — Cadena-Castañeda et al. 2019: 13 (review of the genus, key to the species). — Silva et al. 2021: 36 (key to the genera of the family Batrachideinae). — Kasalo et al. 2021: 175 (catalogued).

TYPE SPECIES. — Acrydium hamatum De Geer, 1773, designated by Kirby (1910).

COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION. — 12 species, 11 of which occur in South America, and only one ( S. fasciata Hancock, 1907) that occurs in Central America.