Canthyloscelidae

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 12

Canthyloscelidae

This is a very small family comprising 12 extant species and four genera ( Hutson 1977), sister to Scatopsidae . Amorim (2000) confirmed the precedence of the name of the family-group Canthyloscelidae and included genera previously referred to as belonging to Synneuridae and Hyperoscelididae . For Chile, there are records of only one genus, Canthyloscelis Edwards , with two species described, C. (Araucoscelis) pectinata Edwards and C. (Araucoscelis) pictipennis Edwards ( Hutson 1977) . Canthyloscelis (Araucoscelis) has as its sister clade the subgenus Canthyloscelis (Canthyloscelis) , known only from New Zealand. There are no recent taxonomic studies on the family for Chile.