Varunacaea| Milne Edwards H., 1853: 175.
Pseudograpsinae (part = Varuninae)| Kossmann, 1877: 57(part).
Varuninae Alcock, 1900b: 288, 296. -- Borradaile, 1907a: 468, 485(key). -- Rathbun, 1918a: 260. -- Tesch, 1918a: 82. -- Sakai, 1939: 658. -- Edmondson, 1959: 176. -- Crosnier, 1965: 33. -- Sakai, 1965b: 195. -- Sakai, 1976a: 637. -- Manning & Holthuis, 1981: 247. -- Dai & Yang, 1991: 514. -- Wada, 1995: 405(key). -- Guinot & Bouchard, 1998: 664. -- Ng, 1998c: 1139(key), fig.
Varunidae| Stebbing, 1905: 41.