Lycaon Brookes, 1827 . In Griffith et al., Anim. Kingdom, 5:151.

TYPE SPECIES: Lycaon tricolor Brookes, 1827 (= Hyaena pietà Temminck, 1820) by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Placed in Simocyoninae Dawkins, 1868, by Simpson (1945) and Stains (1975).