If this is accepted, the Brassolini become the sister tribe of the Morphini among the Satyrinae.

Formerly, they were treated as an independent family Brassolidae or subfamily Brassolinae.

Many members of this tribe are called owl butterflies.

[1] The Brassolini is a Neotropical butterfly group that currently includes 102 species[2] and contain 17 genera in two or three subtribes, depending whether the enigmatic genus Bia is assigned here as the most basal lineage.

[2] Genera are listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence.