Bacanius J. L. LeConte, 1853: 291 [type species: Bacanius tantillus J. L. LeConte, 1853: 291. Designated by Bickhardt, 1916: 71]; Lacordaire, 1854: 271; Marseul, 1856: 576; Schmidt, 1885a: 332; Reitter, 1886: 273; 1909: 297; Ganglbauer, 1899: 409; Jakobson, 1925: 18; Cooman, 1936: 136; Reichardt, 1941: 84, 117; Wenzel and Dybas, 1941: 438; Wenzel, 1944: 54, 95-101; Arnett, 1962: 375, 380; Witzgall, 1971: 175; Kryzhanovskij and Reichardt, 1976: 267; Mazur, 1984: 118.
Subgenus Mullerister Cooman, 1936
Mullerister Cooman, 1936: 137 [type species: Bacanius tonkinensis Cooman, 1936: 135. Originally designated]; Mazur, 1984: 119.
Muellerister Kryzhanovskij and Reichardt, 1976: 270 (emend.).
Neobacanius G. Müller (part.), 1925: 20; Reichardt,
1941: 118, 121.
Subgenus Gomyister Mazur, 1984
Subgenus Bacanius J.L. LeConte, 1853