Cercinthus Stål, 1860a (early): 475. Type species by monotypy: Centrocoris lehmannii Kolenati, 1857.
Coccocephalus Fieber, 1860b (November): 60 (syn. Stål, 1872d: 52). Type species by subsequent monotypy (Fieber, 1861a: 231): Coccodocephalus griseus Fieber, 1861.
Coccodocephalus Fieber, 1861a: 231, 443. Corrected spelling for Coccocephalus Fieber, 1860.