Physopelta Amyot & Serville, 1843: 271. Type species by subsequent designation (Hussey in Hussey & Sherman, 1929: 28): Physopelta erythrocephala Amyot & Serville, 1843 (= Cimex albofasciatus De Geer, 1773), Oriental Region.
Neophysopelta Ahmad & Abbas, 1987a: 132, 134 (syn. Stehlík & Kerzhner, 1999: 121). Type species by monotypy: Cimex slanbuschii Fabricius, 1787.