Subgenus Erioptera Meigen
Polymeda Meigen, 1800 . Type species, Erioptera lutea Meigen, 1804 (designation: Coquillett, 1910). Name suppressed by I.C.Z.N., 1963: 20: Opinion 678.
Erioptera Meigen, 1803: 262 (as genus). Type species, Erioptera lutea Meigen, 1804 (designation: Coquillett, 1910).
Polyraphia Meigen, 1818: 111 (as genus). Type species, Erioptera taenionota Meigen, 1818 (monotypic).
Polyrhaphia Agassiz, 1847: 304. Type species, Erioptera taenionota Meigen, 1818 (monotypic).
Octavia Bigot, 1854: 456, 474 (as genus). Type species, Erioptera taenionota Meigen, 1818 (designation: Coquillett, 1910).
Chemalida Rondani, 1856: 180 (as genus), Type species, Erioptera taenionota Meigen, 1818 (original designation).
Ilisophila Rondani, 1856: 180 (as genus), Type species, Erioptera lutes Meigen, 1804 (original designation).
Limnoea Rondani, 1856: 180 (as genus), Type species, Erioptera flavescens Meigen, 1804 (original designation).
Limnoica Rondani, 1861: 180 (as genus), Type species, Erioptera flavescens Meigen, 1804 (original designation).