Type species: Gracillaria tringipennella Zeller, 1839. Isis von Oken 1839: 209. .By subsequent designation by Fletcher, 1929. Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture, India (Entomology) 11: 25. The type species was established in combination with the generic name Gracilaria, at that time an incorrect subsequent spelling of Gracillaria Haworth, 1828. Gracilaria was not established as an emendation until 1907 by Walsingham in Sharp (1907c).