Subfamily Diplopterinae Saussure, 1864
Diploptériens Saussure, 1864b: 154, as a taxon at the rank named légion in French, below tribe and above genus; Walker, 1868: 56, the name was Latinized and attributed to Saussure.
Diplopteridae: Walker, 1868: 56, 189; Walker, 1869: 125.
Diplopterinae: Handlirsch, 1925: 488, this record is copied from Princis (1965); Roth, 2003:41.
Diplopteridae: Princis, 1950: 162.