Subfamily Alexandrellinae Holman & Watling, 1983
Alexandrellinae Holman & Watling, 1983: 28.
Tironidae – Chevreux 1911: 1167 (in part).
Acanthonotozomatidae – Schellenberg 1931: 116 (in part).
Stegocephalidae – Nicholls 1938: 40 (in part)
Astyridae – Birstein & Vinogradova 1960: 152 (in part).
Stilipedidae – J.L. Barnard 1969: 451 (in part).
Alexandrellinae – Andres & Lott 1986: 134 (discussion).
non Stegocephalinae Dana, 1852: 310.
non Acanthonotozomatidae Stebbing, 1906: 210.
non Tironidae Stebbing, 1906: 273
non Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908: 535.
non Astyridae Pirlot, 1934: 175.
According to the phylogenetic analyses of Verheye et al. (2016b, 2017), the Alexandrellinae are extremely close to the Epimeriidae, and might even be nested within Epimeria.