Schminke (2008) redefined the genus Kinnecaris Jakobi, 1972 to include 17 species from Africa, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, basing his generic diagnosis chiefly on characters recognized as phylogenetically informative by Karanovic (2004, 2005), who suggested ten of those species to be relatively closely related.

Ranga Reddy & Schminke (2009) added one more species from India. Only two of those 18 species were originally placed in the genus by Jakobi (1972), who designated Parastenocaris forficulata Chappuis, 1952 as the type species, and included additionally P. arenicola Chappuis, 1954 and P. marlieri Chappuis, 1955, although noting that "kann P. marlieri als möglicher Grundtyp eines neuen Genus sufgefasst warden".

Schminke (2008) does not mention P. marlieri anywhere in his paper, but Schminke (2010) lists this species as incertae sedisin Parastenocaris. Schminke (2008), however, includes in the redefined genus Kinnecaris three species from the genus Cafferocaris Jakobi, 1972: C. caffer (Chappuis, 1935), C. muscicola (Chappuis, 1935), and C. variolata (Chappuis, 1952). Three other members of Cafferocaris were relegated as incertae sedis by Schminke (2008), and because C. caffer was designated as the type species of this genus by Jakobi (1972), Cafferocaris became a junior subjective synonym of Kinnecaris.

Besides the above mentioned six species of Kinnecaris and Cafferocaris, Schminke (2008) included the following 11 species in the newly revised genus Kinnecaris: K. aethiopica (Cottarelli & Bruno, 1995), K. arenosa (Fryer, 1956) [Note: incorrectly spelled as arenosus both by Fryer (1956) and Schminke (2008)], K. cornuta (Chappuis, 1955) [Note: this species was placed in the genus Macacocaris Jakobi, 1972 by Jakobi (1972)], K. eberhardi (Karanovic, 2005), K. fluviatilis (Wells, 1964), K. giselae Schminke, 2008, K. impervia (Cottarelli & Bruno, 1995), K. lyncaea (Cottarelli & Bruno, 1994), K. madagascarensis (Chappuis, 1952), K. quollensis (Cottarelli & Bruno, 1995), K. sinoiaica (Wells, 1964), and K. solitaria (Karanovic, 2004). Finally, Ranga Reddy & Schminke (2009) added K. godavari Ranga Reddy & Schminke, 2009 to the list. (from karanovic & Kooper, 2011)

REMANEICARIS Jakobi, 1972

The genus Remaneicaris was proposed by Jakobi (1972) to accommodate the species included in the “remanei-group” (Noodt 1963) together with some other neotropical species described subsequently.

The genus was revisited by Corgosinho & Martínez Arbizu (2005), who profoundly modified Jakobi’s concept in excluding some species from the genus, including some new and formerly known parastenocaridids, and by identifying some apomorphies which reveal its monophyletic status.

Remaneicaris was considered valid by the former authors because it is based on a valid type species, viz. Remaneicaris remanei (Noodt, 1963), and therefore article 13 of ICZN (1999) applies (from: Corgosinho et al. 2007).

"With 35 species, Remaneicaris is the most speciose Neotropical group of Parastenocarididae. The genus retains an unusual set of plesiomorphic characters, and can be divided into five monophyletic groups [R. argentina (Noodt, 1965), R. analuizae Corgosinho & Martínez Arbizu, 2005; R. tridactyla Corgosinho et al., 2007, R. cordobaensis (Noodt, 1965) and R. persephone (Noodt, 1965)] plus R. ignotus (Dussart, 1983) and R. meyerabichi (Noodt, 1962)" (from: Gorgosinho et al., 2017)