Elachiptera Macquart, 1835: 621 .

Type species: Chlorops brevipennis Meigen, 1830: 159 — Germany. Designation: original.

Myrmemorpha Dufour, 1833: 218 .

Type species: Myrmemorpha brachyptera Dufour, 1833: 219 — Spain. Designation: monotypy. Senior name but not available after article 23 of the Code, see above.

Mirmemorpha Dufour, 1833: 220—error.

Myrmecomorpha Blanchard, 1840: 629 —unjustified emendation of Myrmemorpha .

Crassiseta von Roser, 1840: 63.

Type species: Oscinis cornuta Fallén, 1820: 6 — Sweden. Designation: Corti, 1909: 12.

Mirmemorpha Rondani, 1841: 281 (Note)—error or unjustified emendation.

Pachychaeta Loew, 1845: 50 —proposed in synonymy with Crassiseta von Roser. Type species Oscinis cornuta Fallén, 1820: 6 — Sweden. Designation: Andersson 1977: 68, incorrectly stated as monotypy.

Elachyptera Agassiz, 1847: 135 —unjustified emendation.

Myrmecomorpha Agassiz, 1847: 243 —unjustified emendation of Myrmemorpha .

Macrochetum Rondani, 1856: 127

Type species: Oscinis cornuta Fallén, 1820: 6 — Sweden. Designation: original.

Macrochoetum Bezzi, 1892: 43 (see O’Hara et al., 2011: 110)

Macrochaetum Bezzi, 1894: 343 (see O’Hara et al., 2011: 110)

Macrochoetum Bezzi, 1894: 351—unjustified emendation.

Ceratobarys Coquillett, 1898: 45 .

Type species: Hippelates eulophus Loew, 1872: 104 — USA. Designation: original.

Macrochaetum, error (Corti, 1909: 128).

Myrmecomorpha Corti, 1909: 141 —subsequent usage of the unjustified emendation of Myrmemorpha . Type species: Chlorops brevipennis Meigen, 1830: 159 - Germany. Designation: monotypy.

Megachetum Rondani (Becker, 1910: 119) —lapsus.

Doliomyia Johannsen, 1924: 89; as subgenus of Melanochaeta .

Type species: Melanochaeta longiventris Johannsen, 1924: 89 — USA. Designation: original.

Neoelachiptera Séguy, 1938a: 360 .

Type species: Neoelachiptera lerouxi Séguy, 1938a: 360 — Kenya. Designation: original.

Melanochaeta authors nec Bezzi, in part.