Lactistes Schiødte, 1848: 456. Type species by subsequent designation (Distant, 1902a: 86): Lactistes vericulatus Schiødte, 1848.
Eolactistes Linnavuori, 1993c: 13 (as subgenus of Lactistes). Type species by original designation: Lactistes incertus Signoret, 1881.