Some genera are nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
This category is composed of an artificial assortment of different genera, and it is possible that more precise distributional data will cause some of them to be shifted to other groups. Dibolia, Argopistes, Blepharida and Mantura are distributed everywhere except Australia. Sphaeroderma and Philopona are distributed everywhere except the New World. Crepidodera is known from all the regions except the Afrotropical. Hippuriphila has a typical holarctic distribution, but is known mostly from the temperate parts of both continents.