Pyrgotosoma Malloch, 1933: 252.
Type species: Pyrgotosoma flavida [= flavidum] Malloch, 1933: 253 (monotypy).
References: Aczél, 1956a: 181 (list); Aczél, 1956b: 8 (comments), 9 (key), 12 (list); Steyskal, 1967: 5 (catalogue); Korneyev, 2004: 22 (comments), Hernández-Ortiz, 2010: 957 (classification); Mello et al., 2010: 45 (comments); Mello & Lamas, 2014: 1 (comments).
Pirgotosoma. Misspelling. Ref. Stuardo, 1946: 131 (catalogue [as Otitidae]).