Formerly, when only four tribes of Pyrginae were recognized, the Pyrgini contained the largest number of genera among these.

[1] One of the traditional Pyrginae tribes, the Eudamini, had to be raised to subfamily rank as Eudaminae.

These are close relatives of the Pyrgini sensu stricto, and may just as well be included in them as they used to be: together they do still form a monophyletic group.

Most authors prefer to keep them separate however, as each is an apomorphic and biogeographically distinct lineage of the Pyrgini sensu lato.

Of these newly recognized tribes, the Achlyodidini are closest to the Pyrgini, but conspicuously differ from the latter in their unusually-shaped wings.