Family CTENOSTYLIDAE Bigot Ctenostylidae Bigot, 1882: 22. Type-genus: Ctenostylum Macquart, 1851. Refs. Bigot 1882: 22 (family status); Karsch 1883: 471 (family status); Brues & Melander 1932: 322 (family status); Lopes 1935: 247–253 (family status); McAlpine 1990: 365–371 (family relationships); Barraclough 1994: 5–14 (Afrotropical review; family relationships); Duxbury & Barraclough 1994: 33 (listed); Barraclough 1995a: 121 (key, Southern Africa); McAlpine 1998: 110 (diagnosis); Meier et al. 1999: 199–258 (biology); Papp & Schumann 2000: 163 (diagnosis); Korneyev 2001: 48 (diagnosis); McAlpine 2002: 3–19 (morphology); Korneyev 2006: 61 (diagnosis); Buck et al. 2009 (key); Korneyev 2010: 963–969 (diagnosis, biology, classification, key); Marshall 2012: 340 (notes). Lochmostylidae Hendel, 1935: 52. Type-genus: Lochmostylia Hendel, 1934. Refs. Hendel 1935: 52 (desc., family status); McAlpine 1990: 365 (notes). Lochmostyliidae Hennig, 1936: 247. Type-genus: Lochmostylia Hendel, 1934. Refs. Hennig 1936: 247 (notes); Keiser 1951: 123 (notes); Aczél 1956a: 163, 164 (notes); Korneyev 2001: 48 (synonymic list). Lochmostyliinae Keiser, 1951: 113. Refs. Keiser 1951: 113 (subfamily status), 124 (key); Aczél 1956a: 183 (key); Aczél 1956b: 26 (notes); Paramonov 1958: 90 (key); Steyskal 1967: 1–8 (cat., Neotropical); Steyskal 1980: 556 (cat., Afrotropical). Ctenotylidae Barraclough, 1994: 5 (missp.).

Published as part of Pereira-Colavite, A. & Mello, R. L., 2014, Catalogue of the Ctenostylidae (Diptera, Schizophora) of the World, pp. 215-223 in Zootaxa 3838 (2) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/227914