Genus Litoleptis Chillcott, 1963: 1186. Type species: Litoleptis alaskensis Chillcott, 1963, by orig. des. Refs.: Hennig, 1976: 14 (com.); James & Turner, 1981: 483 (com.), 484 (com. key); Nagatomi, 1982b: 141–142 (dist.); Nagatomi & Soroida, 1985: 281 (com.); Nagatomi et al., 1991: 597, 598 (phyl.); Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999: 16 (com.); Stuckenberg, 2001: 19 (com., as Spaniidae); Zloty et al., 2005: 259 (com.); Arillo et al. 2009: 33 (des., as Spaniidae); Kerr, 2009: 486 (com.); Kerr, 2010: 68 (key, as Rhagionidae), 90 (diag.); Klassa & Santos, 2015: 523 (list); Imada & Kato, 2016a: 43 (diag.), 45 (new species); Imada & Kato, 2016b: 7 (biol., des. larvae); Grimaldi, 2018: 2 (com.), 4 (des.), 11–16 (phyl.). chilensis Hennig, 1972: 6–9. Holotype: male, Chile, Batuco Cerro (SMNS). Dist.: Región Metropolitana, Santiago Province (Batuco). Refs.: Stuckenberg, 2001: 19 (com.); Kerr, 2010: 124 (list); Grimaldi, 2018: 2, 12–15 (com.)

Published as part of Elgueta, Mario & Santos, Charles Morphy D., 2020, A catalog of Rhagionidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Chile, pp. 237-248 in Zootaxa 4728 (2) on page 243, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3621163