Genus Laodicea Lesson, 1843

Laodicea Lesson, 1843: 294,

type species Medusa crucigera Gmelin, 1788 by monotypy.

Laodice Lesson, 1843: 294, invalid non-Latin name.

Octorhopalon von Lendenfeld, 1885: 919, type species Octorhopalon fertilis von Lendenfeld, 1885 by monotypy.

Diagnosis: Medusa with four simple radial canals; gonads along radial canals; with marginal cordyli, with or without marginal cirri, with adaxial ocelli, without statocysts.