Pleurochaeta Becker, 1915: 63. Type species: Pleurochaeta fulvisetis Becker, 1915: 64; by monotypy. Junior homonym of Pleurochaeta Beddard, 1883 (see GORODKOV 1986: 23).
Pleurochaetella Vockeroth, 1965: 834. New substitute name for Pleurochaeta Becker, 1915.