Cicadopsyllidium elongatum was named by Becker-Migdisova (1959). Its type specimen is PIN 371/920, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Dzhil Formation of Kyrgyzstan. It is the type species of Cicadopsyllidium.