Genus Atholus Thomson, 1859

Atholus Thomson, 1859: 76 [type species: Hister bimaculatus Linnaeus, 1758: 358, originally designated]; Schmidt 1885: 288; Ganglbauer 1889: 369; Lewis 1906: 402; Bickhardt 1917: 159, 162; 1919: 13, 137, 139; Auzat 1916: 93; Arnett 1962: 378, 381; Halstead 1963: 7, 8; Witzgall 1971: 179, 183; Kryzhanovskij and Reichardt 1976: 382; Mazur 1984: 210, 1997: 128, 2011: 103.

Peranus Lewis, 1906: 401 [type species: Hister scutellaris Erichson, 1834: 151], synonymized by Kryzhanovskij and Reichardt 1976: 384.

Atholister Reitter, 1909: 286 [type species: Hister scutellaris Erichson], synonymized by Heyden, 1910: 317.

Euatholus Kryzhanovskij in Kryzhanovskij & Reichardt, 1976: 387 [type species: Hister duodecimstriatus Schrank, 1781: 39], synonymized by Mazur 1984: 210.