Family LITHOGLYPTIDAE Aurivillius, 1892

Lithoglyptidae Aurivillius, 1892: 133 .— Kolbasov 2009: 239.— Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov 2014: 13.

Diagnosis. Females with well-developed opercular bars, comb collar, thoracic lappets and mouth appendages; twosegmented protopod mouth cirri, biramous multi-annulated terminal cirri, caudal appendages present in some species, intestine with anus. Dwarf males pear-shaped, with pair of lobes at base of attachment antennules (Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014).

Remarks: Consist of three subfamilies: Berndtiinae, Lithoglyptinae and Kochlorininae, all present in South Africa.