[3][4] The Romanian zoologist Traian Ceuca first proposed Metamastigophorophyllon in 1976 as a subgenus within the genus Mastigophorophyllon in the family Mastigophorophyllidae.

Ceuca proposed this monotypic subgenus to contain the species Mastigophorophyllon giljarovi, which was described by the Czech zoologist Jaroslav Lang in 1959 based on type material found near Krasnaya Polyana in Russia.

[5] In 1982, the French myriapodologist Jean-Paul Mauriès of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris described the monotypic genus Persedicus and its type species Persedicus martensi based on specimens found in wet litter in dense forests in Mazandaran province in Iran.

[4] In 2016, the Serbian myriapodologists Dargan Ž. Antić and Slobodan E. Makarov of the University of Belgrade described three new species in the genus Metamastigophorophyllon, all with 31 segments in adults, and all found in the Caucasus: M. hamatum, M. lamellohirsutum, and M. torsivum.

[3] To arrive at 31 segments as adults, however, species in this genus must deviate from the anamorphosis usually observed in the order Chordeumatida.