See text Confluens is a genus of caddisflies belonging to the family Oeconesidae.

Keith Arthur John Wise originally described the genus in 1962, naming Confluens hamiltoni as the type species.

[3][2] Phylogenetic analysis indicates that Confluens forms a clade with the genera Alloecentrella, Beraeoptera, Olinga, Pycnocentria and Pycnocentrodes.

[4] Wise's original text (the type description) reads as follows: Ocelli absent; ♂ frons with a small hole on each side.

Maxillary palpi, ♂, membranous, apparently two-jointed with transverse suture, as in Pycnocentrodes, but appearing as one in internal view; no brush of hairs from base.