Genus 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. Platypalpus includes very small to large species with body size varying from about 1–5 mm and it is 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 usually raptorial, mid femur thickened and usually armed with rows of spine-like setae ventrally, mid tibia usually with more or less prominent apical spur; wing with veins A1 and CuA2 present (cell cup present).