FAMILY                      Desmidocercidae Cram, 1927 [Filarioidea by Chabaud 1975 p.20]
GENUS                              Desmidocerca Skrjabin, 1916:461
TYPE SPECIES                            Desmidocerca aerophila Skrjabin, 1916 [Turkestan]
GENUS                              Desmidocercella Yorke & Maplestone, 1926:321
                                   [=Pharyngosetaria Lubimov, 1937:348] [Liubimov; type is marcinowskyi]
SPECIES                                 Desmidocercella ardeae (Nawrotzky, 1914) [syn. Chabaud & Choquet 1955 p.96]
                                        [=Filaria ardeae Nawrotzky, 1914]
                                        [=Pharyngosetaria butoridi Oschmarin & Belouss, 1951]
                                        [=Filaria marcinowskyi Skrjabin, 1923]
                                        [=Lemdana urbaini Campana, 1949]
SPECIES                                 Desmidocercella kwalimanzi Mji, 1951 [host Ardea melanocephala]
SPECIES                                 Desmidocercella leiperi Singh, 1948
SPECIES                                 Desmidocercella numidica Seurat, 1920
GENUS                              Diomedenema Johnston & Mawson, 1952:32
TYPE SPECIES                            Diomedenema diomedae Johnston & Mawson, 1952 [South Australia]
GENUS                              Skrjabinocercella Gushanskaya, 1953 [as subgenus of Desmidocercella]
SPECIES                                 Skrjabinocercella incognita (Solonitsin, 1932)
                                        [=Desmidocercella incognita Solonitsin, 1932]
SPECIES                                 Skrjabinocercella skrjabini (Guschanskaya, 1949)
                                        [=Desmidocercella skrjabini Guschanskaya, 1949]