Epedanidae [partim]: Loman, 1902, p. 197.

Phalangodidae [partim]: Roewer, 1912, p. 101; 1923, p. 64; Mello-Leitão, 1938, p. 136; Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943, p. 1; 1947, p. 328; 1948, p. 1; 1957, p. 81; 1983, p. 202; Šilhavý, 1979, p. 60; González-Sponga, 1987, p. 45; Suzuki, 1941, p. 98; 1969, p. 16; 1977, p. 12; 1982, p. 16; 1985, p. 261.

Gonyleptidae [partim]: Juberthie, 1970, p. 140.

Gonyleptidae Stygnoleptinae H. Soares, 1972, p. 68; Dumitrescu, p. 1976, 18; Kury, 1997, p. 2 [junior subjective synonym of Zalmoxidae Sørensen, 1886, by Kury (1997)].

Zalmoxidae Staręga, 1989, p. 4–5; 1992, p. 295; Kury & Cokendolpher, 2000, p. 142; Kury, 2003, p. 5–6, 14, 240–253, 262– 263; Kury & Pérez-González, 2007, p. 243–246.

Type genus. Zalmoxis Sørensen, 1886 .