Family Haemogamasidae Oudemans, 1926

Haemogamasidae Oudemans, 1926: 120 . Eulaelapinae Wen, 1976: 348.

Acanthochelinae Radovsky & Gettinger, 1999: 78.

The family is of almost worldwide distribution. According to Beaulieu et al. (2011), it includes 78 species and five genera, two of which inhabit Asiatic Russia.