Genus Psychoda Latreille

Psychoda Latreille, 1796: 152 . Type species, Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 (mon.).

Tinearia Schellenberg, 1803: pl. 40. Type species, Psychoda alternata Say, 1824 (sub. des., Coquillett, 1910: 615).

Trichoptera Meigen, 1803: 261 . Type species, Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 (sub. des., Coquillett, 1910: 616).

Logima Eaton, 1904: 58 . Type species, Psychoda erminea Eaton, 1904 (orig. des.).

Copropsychoda Vaillant, 1971: 30. Type species, Psychoda brevicornis Tonnoir, 1940 (mon.).

Psychodocha Ježek, 1984: 135 . Type species, Psychoda cinerea Banks, 1894 (orig. des.).

Psycha Ježek, 1984: 136. Type species, Psychoda grisescens Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Psychomora Ježek, 1984: 137 . Type species, Psychoda trinodulosa Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Chodopsycha Ježek, 1984: 138. Type species, Psychoda lobata Tonnoir, 1940 (orig. des.).

Psychodula Ježek, 1984: 138. Type species, Psychoda minuta Banks, 1894 (orig. des.).

Ypsydocha Ježek, 1984: 140. Type species, Psychoda setigera Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Falsologima Ježek & van Harten, 1996: 73 . Type species, Psychoda savaiiensis Edwards, 1928 (orig. des.).

Psychana Ježek & van Harten, 2005: 207. Type species, Psychoda rujumensis Ježek & van Harten, 2005 (orig. des.).

Apsycha Ježek, 2007: 146 . Type species, Psychoda pusilla Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Comm.: With a wide global distribution, this constitutes one of the most species-rich genera of non- haematophagous psychodids with about 450 described species (Salmela et al. 2012), some of which have become adapted to synanthropic habitats, e.g. Psychoda alternata Say, 1824, Ps. albipennis Zetterstedt, 1850 and Ps. cinerea Banks, 1894, and associated with cases of human myiasis, i.e. Ps. alternata and Ps. albipennis (Kamimura 1967, Oğuz et al. 2012, Yones et al. 2014). The genus has been subjected to different revisions (Quate 1959, Vaillant 1972, Ježek 1984, Bravo et al. 2006), which range from the recognition of a single genus Psychoda s.l. made up of 12 subgenera (Bravo et al. 2006), to a división of the taxon in 13 genera (Ježek 1984, 2007, Ježek & van Harten 2005). Seven of the 75 species found in the Neotropics (Bravo et al. 2006, 2010a, Cordeiro & Bravo 2008, Ibáñez-Bernal 2008, Cordeiro et al. 2011, Ježek et al. 2011) have been recorded from Colombia and are listed here, without consideration of their subgeneric classification.