Amphiareus Distant, 1904d (August): 220. Type species by original designation: Xylocoris fulvescens Walker, 1872 (= Xylocoris constrictus Stål, 1860).
Poronotus Reuter, 1871b: 561 (junior homonym of Poronotus Gill, 1861, Pisces). Type species by subsequent designation (Kirkaldy, 1906a: 120): Xylocoris constrictus Stål, 1860.
Poronotellus Kirkaldy, 1904b (November): 280 (syn. Herring, 1965: 203, with Amphiareus). New name for Poronotus Reuter.