Genus Rhysida H.C.Wood, 1862

Type-species. Branchiostoma lithobioides Newport, 1845 (by subsequent designation by Attems, 1930).

Range. Indo-Australia, Ethiopia, Neotropics.

Remarks. The diversity of Rhysida in the Neotropical Region was reduced by Chagas (2013) to seven species: five indigenous ( R. celeris (Humbert & Saussure, 1870), R. brasiliensis Kraepelin, 1903, R. rubra Bücherl, 1939, R. riograndensis Bucherl, 1939 and R. chacona Verhoeff, 1944) and two introduced ( R. immarginata (Porat, 1876) and R. longipes (Newport, 1845)) .