Type genus. Rhinoleptus Orejas-Miranda, Roux-Estève, and Guibé, 1970: 4.

Diagnosis. Members of Rhinoleptini are the only species of the Epictinae that occur in the Old World. They can usually be distinguished from the Tribe Epictini by possession of a small anterior supralabial scale (usually medium or large in Epictini). One species of Rhinoleptini (Guinea sundewalli) has a large anterior supralabial and two species out of 56 in Epictini (Siagonodon cupinensis and Rena unguirostris) have small anterior supralabials (Table 2). The support for this group was 52% BP and 64% PP for the four-gene tree (Fig. 3) and 87% BP and 100% PP for the nine-gene tree (Fig. 4).

Content. Two genera and six species (Table 1; Fig. 9).

Distribution. Rhinoleptini is distributed in equatorial Africa, from southern Senegal, Guinea, and Bioko Island in the west to Ethiopia in the east.

Remarks. Rhinoleptini is a primarily West African clade of leptotyphlopids and comprises the Old World members of the Subfamily Epictinae.