alternata Say, 1824: 358 . E., L., P., M., F. Type locality: USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Type material: lost (Berdén 1952). Distr.: Cosmopolitan. Refs.: Ibáñez-Bernal 2008: 97 (refs. to that date, Mexico records); Mazurkiewicz & Kubrakiewicz 2008: 267 (dev. biol.); Boumans 2011: 58 (Netherlands records); Cordeiro et al. 2011: 6 (Brazil records, key); Ježek et al. 2011: 192 (Tinearia species checklist); Kvifte et al. 2011: 185 (Norway record); Curler & Moulton 2012: 606 (mol. tax.); Espíndola et al. 2012: 494 (mol. tax.); Kvifte 2012: 42 (Afrotropical Psychodidae cat.); Omad 2012: 262 (Argentina records); Ali et al. 2013: 11 (Iraq records); Kvifte et al. 2013: 64 (Croatian checklist); Wagner 2013 (European Psychodidae checklist); Elgueta & Ježek 2014: 79 (Chilean Psychodidae checklist); Kvifte & Boumans 2014: 12 (Norway records and DNA barcoding); Salmela et al. 2014: 40 (Finnish Diptera checklist).

Note: Only references subsequent to Ibáñez-Bernal (2008) are cited above.

tripunctata Macquart, 1838a: 81; 1838b: 85. marginepunctata von Roser, 1840: 50.

septempunctata Phillipi, 1865: 631 .

conspicillata Hutton, 1881: 13 .

schizura Kincaid, 1899: 32 .

floridica Haseman, 1907: 316 .

nocturnala Haseman, 1907: 319 .

bengalensis Brunetti, 1908: 371 .

albimaculata Welch, 1912: 411 .

dakotensis Dyar, 1926: 108 .

marmorosa Santos Abréu, 1930: 123 (as Psychoda alternata var. marmorosa). floridica Johannsen, 1934: 25 (as Psychoda alternata var. floridica Haseman, 1907).