Brunettia Annandale, 1910: 141. Type species: Diplonema superestes Annandale, 1908, by subsequent designation of Brunetti (1911). Additional references: Quate (1955), Duckhouse (1966), Quate & Quate (1967), Duckhouse (1978a), Duckhouse (1991, review), Quate (1996), Bravo (2006).