Original description:
- Eccles, David H. & Ethelwynn Trewavas. 1989. "Malawian cichlid fishes. The Classification of some Haplochromine genera". Lake Fish Movies, Herten, West Germany. 1-334 (crc00063)
Type species: Haplochromis urotaenia Regan, 1922 (original designation).
Described species included (4):
valid: 4- Haplochromis urotaenia Regan, 1922 (valid)
- Haplochromis spilopterus Trewavas, 1935 (valid)
- Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus Oliver, 2012 (valid)
- Protomelas krampus Dierickx & Snoeks, 2020 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (5):
- sp. 'insignis mumbo' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spilopterus jalo' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spilopterus kande' (undescribed)
- sp. 'urotaenia tanzania' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spilopterus yellow' (undescribed)