Family POLYCTENIDAE Westwood 
Polyctenidae 1874 Westwood, Thes. Ent. Oxon. 197-199, pis. 38-40. 
1879 Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 309-312, Tab. IX. 
1880 Waterhouse, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 319-320, Tab. IX. 
1892 Bigot, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 61 (2): 235. [Cat.] 
1896 Van der Wulp, Cat. Diptera South Asia, 208. [Cat.] 
1899 Sharp, Cambridge Natural History, 6: 561. 
1904 Speiser, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. 7: 373-380, 6 figs. [Phylogeny] 
1906 Distant, Fauna Brit. India, Rhynch. 3: 11-12, fig. 10. 
1906 Kirkaldy, Canad. Ent. 38: 369-376. [Class.] 
1906 Kirkaldy, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 32: 147. [List] 
1909 Speiser, Rec. Indian Mus. 3: 271-274. [Review] 
1909 Oshanin, Verz. palaeark. Hemip. 1: 612. [Cat.] 
1911 Horvath, M6m. Congr. Int. d’Ent., Bruxelles, 2: 249-256, pi. 18. 
1911 Jordan, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. lxiv. [Viviparity] 
1912 Jordan, Novitates Zoologicae, 18: 555-579, pis. 12-14. 
1912 Reuter, Ofv. Finska Vet.-Soc. Forh. 54, Afd. A, No. 6, 1-62. 
1912 Oshanin, Kat. pal. Hemip. pp. xvi+187. [Cat.] 
1913 Jordan, Trans. 2nd Int. Congr. Ent. Oxford, 2: 342-350. 
1920 Costa Lima, Arch. Esc. Sup. Agric. Med. vet. Nictheroy, 4: 61-76, pi. 17. 
1922 Jordan, Ectoparasites, 1: 204-215, figs. 199-208. 
1922 Jordan, Ectoparasites, 1: 284-286, figs. 276-280. [Morph.] 
1931 Stiles and Nolan, Bull. Nat. Inst. Health, 155: 642-643. [Cat.] 
1931 Hagen, Jour. Morph. Physiol. 51: 1-92, 58 figs. [Embryol.] 
1935 Wu, Cat. Insect. Sinensium, 2 : 485. [Cat.] 
1939 Ferris and Usinger, Microent. 4: 1-50, 25 figs. [Monogr.] 
1940 Costa Lima, Insetos do Brasil, 2: 239-242. 
1945 Ferris and Usinger, Pan-Pac. Ent. 21: 121-124. 
Genus EOCTENES Kirkaldy 
Orthotype Polyctenes spasmae Waterhouse 
Eoctenes 1906 Kirkaldy, Canad. Ent. 38: 375. 
Polyctenes 1909 Speiser, Rec. Indian Mus. 3: 272-274. [Partim] 
1909 Oshanin, Verz. pal. Hemip. 1: 612. [Partim] 
Eoctenes 1910 Kellogg and Paine, Ent. News, 21: 401-403, pi. 13. 
Clenoplax 1910 Horv&th, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, 8: 572. (Haplotype, nycteridis 
Horvith.) 
Syncrotus 1910 Horvdth, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, 8: 573. (Non Syncrotus Bergroth, 
1895) (logotype talpa Speiser= spasmae Waterhouse.) 
Eoctenes 1910 Horv&th, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, 8: 574. 
1911 Horv&th, Mem. Congr. Int. d’Ent., 2: 251. 
Ctenoplax 1911 Horvdth, M6m. Congr. Int. d’Ent., 2: 251. 
1911 Horvdth, Math. Term6s. £rt. 29: 103. 
Hemischizus 1911 Horv&th, Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, 9: 336. (n. n. pro Syncrotus Horv&th) 
(logotype talpa Speiser =spasmae Waterhouse.) 
1911 Horvdth, M6m. Congr. Int. d’Ent. 2: 251. 
Eoctenes 1912 Jordan, Novitates Zoologicae, 18: 571-575. 
Hemischizus 1912 Oshanin, Kat. pal. Hemip. 56. 
Eoctenes 1920 Costa Lima, Arch. Esc. Sup. Agric. Med. Vet. 4: 66-68. 
1922 Jordan, Ectoparasites, 1: 204. 
1939 Ferris and Usinger, Microent. 4: 13-15, figs. 3, 4, 5, 7-10. 
eknomius Kellogg and Paine 1910. See Eoctenes intermedius (Speiser). 
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