Taractes Lowe [R. T.] 1843:82 Masc. Taractes asper Lowe 1843. Type by monotypy. •Valid as Taractes Lowe 1843 -- (Mead 1972:16 [ref. 6976], Mead 1973:386 [ref. 7199], Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984:159 [ref. 6441], Haedrich in Whitehead et al. 1986:851 [ref. 13676], Smith 1986:635 [ref. 5712], Yatsu & Nakamura 1989:190 [ref. 13449], Last & Moteki 2001:2827 [ref. 26096], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:651 [ref. 25968], Thompson 2003:1471 [ref. 27088], Parin 2003:S9 [ref. 28536], Bray et al. 2006:1186 [ref. 29088], Parin et al. 2014:365 [ref. 33547], Stewart et al. 2015:1269 [ref. 34201], Bañón et al. 2016:323 [ref. 34397], Motomura et al. 2017:127 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:192 [ref. 35805]). Current status: Valid as Taractes Lowe 1843. Bramidae.