Dalla Torre, 1893: 175; Emery, 1925d: 10; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 122; Taylor, 1987a: 37; Bolton, 1995b: 250.
Emery, 1925d: 10 (diagnosis); Brown, 1955d: 474 (review of genus); Shattuck, 1999: 96 (Australia synopsis); Andersen, 2007: 49 (species groups key); Heterick, 2009: 93 (south-western Australia species key); Heterick et al., 2017: 29 (all species revision, key); Heterick, 2021: 106 (Western Australia species key); Andersen et al., 2023: 1 (Melophorus hirsutipes species group distribution, phylogeny, morphology).
Extant: 92 valid species (7 synonyms, 11 obsolete combinations), 0 valid subspecies (5 synonyms, 4 obsolete combinations)