Platypalpus Macquart

Coryneta Meigen, 1800: 27 . Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation of Engel (1939: 43). Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1963: 339 (Opinion 678).

Platypalpus Macquart, 1827: 92 . Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation of Westwood (1840: 132).

Phoroxypha Rondani, 1856: 146 . Type-species: Tachydromia longicornis Meigen, 1822, by original designation.

Cleptodromia Corti, 1907: 101 (as subgenus of Tachydromia). Type-species: Tachydromia (Cleptodromia) longimana Corti, 1907, by monotypy.

Brevios Brunetti, 1913: 22 . Type-species: B. longicornis Brunetti, 1913, by original designation.

Howlettia Brunetti, 1913: 23 . Type-species: H. flavipes Brunetti, 1913, by monotypy.

Charadrodromia Melander, 1928: 292 . Type-species: C. microphona Melander, 1928, by original designation.

Tachydromia, authors, not Meigen, 1803, misidentifications.

Diagnosis. Very small to large species with body size varying from about 1.0 to 5.0 mm, recognised by the following combination of characters: eyes separated in both sexes, bare; postpronotal lobe well differentiated; scutum usually distinctly longer than broad; mid leg raptorial, mid femur thickened and armed with rows of spinelike setae ventrally, mid tibia usually with more or less prominent apical spur; wing with veins A1 and CuA2 present (cell cup present).