Roger, 1863b: 21; Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 18; Emery, 1911e: 51; Wheeler, 1922: 761, 762 (Afrotropical Discothyrea, Pseudosysphincta); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 76, 77 (Asia Discothyrea, Prodiscothyrea); Smith, 1951c: 784 (North America); Kempf, 1972b: 97 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1339 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 29 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 24 (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 171; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 265 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Mayr, 1865: 13 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 51 (diagnosis); Arnold, 1916: 159 (diagnosis); Weber, 1939a: 99 (Neotropical species key); Brown, 1958g: 248 (review of genus); Brown, 1958h: 19 (New Zealand species); Ogata, 1987a: 107 (diagnosis, Japan); Morisita et al., 1989: 16 (Japan species key); Lattke, 1994: 113 (Neotropical species); Bolton, 1995a: 1049 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 184 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003: 179 (synopsis); Sosa-Calvo & Longino, 2008: 223 (Colombia species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2009: 9 (Malagasy males diagnosis); Terayama, 2009: 98 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 143 (south-western Australia species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 164 (Fiji Is species key); Eguchi et al., 2014: 42 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Xu et al., 2014a: 34 (Oriental species key); Bharti et al., 2015: 123 (Indomalaya species key); Baccaro et al., 2015: 344 (genus in Brazil); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 264 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 275 (brief male diagnosis); Escárraga et al., 2019: 686 (Colombia species key); Hita Garcia et al., 2019: 13 (Afrotropical species revision, key); Chaul, 2020 204 (Brazilian Atlantic rainforest species key); Billen et al., 2020: 1 (procoxal glands); Heterick, 2021: 212 (Western Australia species key); Ramamonjisoa et al., 2024: 356 (Malagasy region male diagnosis).
Extant: 49 valid species (2 synonyms, 2 unavailable misspellings), 0 valid subspecies (2 obsolete combinations)
Fossil: 2 valid species