Macropternella J.A. Slater, 1957: 36. New name for Macropterna Fieber, 1860.
Macropterna Fieber, 1860b: 54; 1861a: 208 (junior homonym of Macropterna Hitchcock, 1848, Amphibia). Type species by subsequent designation (Oshanin, 1912: 32): Oxycarenus inermis Fieber, 1851.