Nomenclature
original description
Irwin-Smith, V. A. (1918). On the Chaetosomatidae, with descriptions of new species, and a new genus from the coast of New South Wales. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 42: 757-814. [details] 
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The generic name Chaetosoma Claparede, 1863 was preoccupied by Chaetosoma Westwood, 1851, a coleopteron. In: Allen, M. W.; Noffsinger, E. M. (1978). Page 15 [details]