Spermophilopsis Blasius, 1884 . Tageblatt. Versamml. Deutsch. Naturf. Magdeburg, 57:325.

TYPE SPECIES: Arctomys leptodactylus Lichtenstein, 1823 .

COMMENTS: Subfamily Xerinae (Gromov et al., 1965:70) or tribe Xerini (Moore, 1959) .