Subfamily Lepidopodinae Gill 1863

Pétalosomes Duméril 1805:120 [ref. 1151] (family)? Lepidopus [no stem of the type genus, not available, Article 11.7.1.1]

Lepidopodinae Gill 1863f:227 [ref. 1686] (subfamily) Lepidopus [stem changed to Lepidop- by Goode & Bean 1896:203 [ref. 1848], confirmed by de Buen 1926:145 [ref. 5054] and by Lindberg 1971:178 [ref. 27211]; original stem Lepidopod- confirmed by Tucker 1956:77, 89 [ref. 32854], by Steyskal 1980:174 [ref. 14191] and by Nelson 2006:432 [ref. 32486]]