It was assumed to be one of the Adamawa languages, but hasn't been included in recent classifications.
A few recent classifications include the tribe Hopliini, but this is not generally accepted.
To date, George's 1999 arrangement remains the most recent comprehensive classification.
Thus, these former suborders were eliminated in the most recent higher classification.
Since there are no features which define these languages positively as a group, recent classifications have abandoned it.
However, these are symplesiomorphies, and more recent classification is based upon cladistics.
The subfamilies have each, at various times, been considered as separate families, but they are grouped together in most recent classifications.
The hypothesis has been largely abandoned in recent classifications.
Both units have been broken up in more recent classifications, though their ultimate relationship is generally accepted.
The most recent classifications place this as the sister taxon to Eurychoromyiidae.