diff --git a/src/css_selectors/select.py b/src/css_selectors/select.py
index 691fecc47a..1d4c6db8e8 100644
--- a/src/css_selectors/select.py
+++ b/src/css_selectors/select.py
@@ -552,6 +552,12 @@ def select_pseudo(cache, pseudo):
             raise ExpressionError(
                 "The pseudo-class :%s is not supported" % pseudo.ident)
 
+    try:
+        func.is_pseudo
+    except AttributeError:
+        raise ExpressionError(
+            "The pseudo-class :%s is invalid" % pseudo.ident)
+
     for item in cache.iterparsedselector(pseudo.selector):
         if func(cache, item):
             yield item
@@ -561,39 +567,46 @@ def select_first_child(cache, elem):
         return cache.sibling_count(elem) == 0
     except ValueError:
         return False
+select_first_child.is_pseudo = True
 
 def select_last_child(cache, elem):
     try:
         return cache.sibling_count(elem, before=False) == 0
     except ValueError:
         return False
+select_last_child.is_pseudo = True
 
 def select_only_child(cache, elem):
     try:
         return cache.all_sibling_count(elem) == 0
     except ValueError:
         return False
+select_only_child.is_pseudo = True
 
 def select_first_of_type(cache, elem):
     try:
         return cache.sibling_count(elem, same_type=True) == 0
     except ValueError:
         return False
+select_first_of_type.is_pseudo = True
 
 def select_last_of_type(cache, elem):
     try:
         return cache.sibling_count(elem, before=False, same_type=True) == 0
     except ValueError:
         return False
+select_last_of_type.is_pseudo = True
 
 def select_only_of_type(cache, elem):
     try:
         return cache.all_sibling_count(elem, same_type=True) == 0
     except ValueError:
         return False
+select_only_of_type.is_pseudo = True
 
 def select_empty(cache, elem):
     return cache.is_empty(elem)
+select_empty.is_pseudo = True
 
 # }}}
 
diff --git a/src/css_selectors/tests.py b/src/css_selectors/tests.py
index 593cb3dae2..dde8a696c7 100644
--- a/src/css_selectors/tests.py
+++ b/src/css_selectors/tests.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import unittest, sys, argparse, json
 
 from lxml import etree, html
 
-from css_selectors.errors import SelectorSyntaxError
+from css_selectors.errors import SelectorSyntaxError, ExpressionError
 from css_selectors.parser import tokenize, parse
 from css_selectors.select import Select
 
@@ -757,6 +757,8 @@ by William Shakespeare
         self.ae(pcss(r'di\a0 v', r'div\['), [])
         self.ae(pcss(r'[h\a0 ref]', r'[h\]ref]'), [])
 
+        self.assertRaises(ExpressionError, lambda : tuple(select('body:nth-child')))
+
         del app
 
     def test_select_shakespeare(self):