[5][3] The zoologist Luis Alberto Pereira first described the second species in this genus, D. oligopodus, in 1984, based on five specimens collected near Puerto Iguazu, close to the Paraná river, in the Missiones province of Argentina.

[6] Since the original description of D. oligopodus, Pereira and three biologists from the University of Padua (Lucio Bonato, Alessandro Minelli, and Leandro Drago) examined seven more specimens (two males and five females) collected from La Plata in Argentina.

[3] Centipedes in this genus have a single lamella on each mandible, second maxillae that are flattened at the distal end, incomplete chitin-lines on the sternum of the forcipular segment, forcipules with denticles along the intermediate part of the ultimate article, and a telson without anal pores.

[3] Using new specimens collected by Pereira, scanning electronic microscopy, and molecular data, Bonato and his colleagues placed this genus in the family Schendylidae instead.

[3] Analysis of the molecular evidence consistently found Dinogophilus nested among the Schendylidae in a phylogenetic tree.