Genus Megaselia Rondani

Megaselia Rondani, 1856: 137 . Type species, Megaselia crassineura Rondani, 1856 = Phora costalis Roser, 1840 (orig. des.). Refs.: Borgmeier, 1925: 137 ( Aphiochaeta); 1961: 71; 1962a: 291 (key, NT spp.); 1964: 258 (key subg. Aphiochaeta, USA); 1966: 2 (key Megaselia s. str ., USA); 1967b: 200 (key oriental Aphiochaeta); 1967c: 83 (key oriental Megaselia s. str .); 1968: 104 (cat.); 1971: 8 (key); Schmitz, 1927a: 111; 1929a: 140; 1956: 387; Malloch, 1935: 336 (key, Samoa); Brues, 1950: 59; Beyer, 1958: 38 (keys); 1959b: 66; 1959c: 3 (key, Africa); 1960: 23 (key, Australia); 1964: 273 (key, Hawaii); 1966: 190; 1967: 335 (key, Micronesia); Ferrar, 1987: 1; Disney, 1989: 1139; Brown, 1992: 73.

Aphiochaeta Brues, 1904: 337 . Refs. Brues, 1906: 9; 1915a: 111; Malloch, 1910: 91; 1912: 445 (key); Schmitz passim before 1926; Lundbeck, 1922: 201; Borgmeier, 1925: 137; Schmitz: 1927a: 111 (subg.).

Plastophora Brues, 1905: 551 .

Megaselida Becker et al., 1907: 175 (emend.; unjustified).

Pericyclocera Schmitz, 1927b: 24 . Refs.: Disney, 1994: 279 (syn.).

Paraphiochaeta Malloch, 1914: 27 . Refs.: Schmitz, 1929a: 141.