Sarima Melichar, 1903: 78 (type species: Sarima illibata Melichar, 1903, by original designation).
Sarima – Distant 1906: 342. — Gnezdilov 2013b: 176.
The genus can be recognized by the following characters: medium-sized; vertex transverse, median carina sometimes weak; frons wide, with median carina, sublateral carinae distinct only in upper half; tegmen with hypocostal plate; Sc short and fusing with R forming a loop; hind wing well three-lobed.