Original description:
- Eccles, David H. & Ethelwynn Trewavas. 1989. "Malawian cichlid fishes. The Classification of some Haplochromine genera". Lake Fish Movies, Herten, West Germany. 1-334 (crc00063)
Type species: Haplochromis woodi Regan, 1922 (original designation).
Described species included (6):
valid: 6- Hemichromis modestus Günther, 1894 (valid)
- Haplochromis woodi Regan, 1922 (valid)
- Haplochromis pholidophorus Trewavas, 1935 (valid)
- Haplochromis pleurospilus Trewavas, 1935 (valid)
- Stigmatochromis macrorhynchos Stauffer, Cleaver-Yoder & Konings, 2011 (valid)
- Stigmatochromis melanchros Stauffer, Cleaver-Yoder & Konings, 2011 (valid)
Potentially undescribed species (5):
- sp. 'modestus mbenji' (undescribed)
- sp. 'pleurospilus mdoka' (undescribed)
- sp. 'spilostichus type' (undescribed)
- sp. 'big-eye' (undescribed)
- sp. 'big-head' (undescribed)