Chinese authors (e.g. Hsiao & Ren, 1981b) still use for this genus the name Harpactor Laporte, now definitively attached to another, Neotropical genus.
Extralimital subgenera: Charontus Stål, 1874, Oriental Region; Diphymus Stål, 1874, Afrotropical; Hypertolomus Stål, 1874, Afrotropical; Taeniorphus Stål, 1874, Afrotropical; Coranideus Reuter, 1881, Afrotropical.