Fauvel, 1867: 117 (replacement name for Caranistes Erichson); Bernhauer and Schubert, 1914: 395 (world catalogue); Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1409 (world catalogue supplement); Blackwelder, 1952: 256 (type species); Schillhammer, 1996: 421 (characters); Smetana and Davies, 2000: 19, 22, 38 (characters; checklist of species of north temperate region); Herman, 2001: 3353 (world catalogue); Smetana, 2004: 674 (catalogue of Palaearctic Regions); Yang and Zhou, 2010: 1–14 (Chinese fauna); Rougemont, 2014: 1737–1765 (Borneo fauna; key to species of Borneo); Schülke and Smetana, 2015: 1086 (catalogue of Palaearctic Region); Li et al., 2018: 472 (catalogue of Chinese species); Xia et al., 2022: 15 (key to Chinese species).
TYPE SPECIES: Caranistes westermanni Erichson, fixed by objective synonymy with Caranistes.