Described as
Glyptotendipes Kieffer, 1913a: p. 255
Type species: Glyptotendipes sigillatus Kieffer, 1922 {= Glyptotendipes foliicola Kieffer, 1918}
Subgenera
Phytotendipes Goetghebuer, 1937: p. 14 (as subgenus) in Goetghebuer and Lenz, 1937a; Type species: Chironomus pallens Meigen, 1804
Trichotendipes Heyn, 1992a: (as subgenus); Type species: Glyptotendipes signatus (Kieffer, 1909)
Synonymy
Phytochironomus Kieffer, 1921c: p. 586; no Type species (invalid)
Tendochironomus Lenz, 1937a: p. 5; Type species: Chironomus (Phytochironomus) tumidus Johannsen, 1932
Caulochironomus Heyn, 1992a: p. 136 (as subgenus); Type species: Tendipes caulicola Kieffer, 1913 – (syn. of subgenus Glyptotendipes)
Codes
1892714000 [IAWM-code]
GLTOTESP [Dutch-lettercode]