Myrmecophyes Fieber, 1870: 253. Type species by monotypy: Myrmecophyes oschannini Fieber, 1870 (= Diplacus alboornatus Stål, 1858).
Diplacus Stål, 1858b: 183 (nomen oblitum; not preoccupied by Diplacus Rafinesque, 1815, nomen nudum; syn. J. Sahlberg, 1871: 466). Type species by monotypy: Diplacus alboornatus Stål, 1858.