In 2019, Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner, Michael Wayne Caldwell, Borja Holgado, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia, Roy Nohra, Juliana Manso Sayão and Philip John Currie defined the clade Mimodactylidae as the group consisting of "Mimodactylus libanensis" and all species more closely related to "Mimodactylus" than to "Istiodactylus latidens", "Ikrandraco avatar" or "Anhanguera blittersdorffi".