Overview of the Sciomyzidae (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea) of the Americas south of the United States Author Murphy, William L. 0000-0002-0085-6998 Research Collaborator, Smithsonian Institution, 7835 Tufton Street, Fishers, Indiana 46038, U. S. A. murph 3000 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0085 - 6998 murph3000@gmail.com Author Abercrombie, Jay 0009-0007-7739-8749 2321 Bixler Drive, Suffield, Ohio 44260, U. S. A. marshfly @ sbcglobal. net; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 7739 - 8749 marshfly@sbcglobal.net Author González, Christian R. 0000-0003-2582-6071 Instituto de Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile christian. gonzalez @ umce. cl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2582 - 6071 christian.gonzalez@umce.cl Author Knutson, Lloyd Systematic Entomology Laboratory (Emeritus), U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Last address: Salita degli Albito, 29, 04024 Gaeta LT, Italy (deceased) Corresponding author text Zootaxa 2023 2023-09-14 5345 1 1 113 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5345.1.1/51853 journal article 311707 10.11646/zootaxa.5345.1.1 3fb229d7-0760-4705-871e-6b39ecf2f5ad 1175-5334 8345756 A49224E8-AFEE-47F4-A62E-34BE0800FDDC Genus ANTICHETA Haliday, 1838 Sixteen species worldwide, seven Palearctic, eight Nearctic, and two that occur in the Americas south of the United States Sciomyza , subgenus Antichaeta Haliday, 1838: 187 [ Hendel 1902: 78 (generic status), Steyskal 1960b (world revision, subgenera, key to species)]. Note: Haliday’s paper was published in November 1838 in the 1839 issue of Annals of Natural History . Type-species: Tetanocera vittata Haliday, 1833: 168 (original designation) = Sciomyza analis Meigen, 1830: 15 (by original designation) Antichaeta , emendation by Agassiz 1848: 76 Heteropteryx Hendel, 1902: 81 (preoccupied Gray 1835: 13 , 32–33) [ Knutson 1966: 72 ] Type-species: Sciomyza brevipennis Zetterstedt, 1846: 2102 (monotypic). Palearctic Hemitelopteryx Cresson, 1920: 51 ( nomen novum for Heteropteryx Hendel ) [ Knutson 1966: 72 ] Type-species: Sciomyza brevipennis Zetterstedt, 1846: 2102 (automatic). Palearctic Lioya Enderlein, 1939: 205 . [ Steyskal 1960b: 18 ] Type-species: Sciomyza atriseta Loew, 1849: 340 (original designation). Palearctic Parantichaeta Enderlein, 1936: 145 (monotypic) [ Steyskal 1960b: 18 , as subgenus, new status] Type-species: Antichaeta bisetosa Hendel, 1902: 78 (monotypic)