Corethrellidae Edwards, 1932

Published, First, 2008, The Frog-Biting Midges of the World (Corethrellidae: Diptera), Zootaxa 1804, pp. 1-456 : 16

Family Corethrellidae Edwards

Corethrellini Edwards 1932: 16 .

Corethrellinae Cook 1965: 104 .

Corethrellidae Wood and Borkent 1986: 262, 1989: 1359 , 1366.

Corethrellidae , as members of the Culicoidea within the Culicomorpha , are closely related to Culicidae (mosquitoes) and Chaoboridae (phantom midges). For many years they were placed in the Culicidae along with the chaoborids, then just with the chaoborids, and have only recently been recognized as a separate family because of evidence that they are the sister group of the Chaoboridae + Culicidae ( Wood and Borkent 1986, 1989). Edwards (1932) was first to recognize the tribe Corethrellini, Cook (1965) the first to propose the rank of subfamily and Wood and Borkent (1986) the first to propose a separate family for this genus.

Because the family is monobasic, all features of the family are given below under the genus Corethrella . Papavero (2002) recognized both Corethrella and Lutzomiops as valid genera in his catalog of the species from the Brazilian Amazon. However, Lutzomiops is a synonym of Corethrella and represents what is here recognized as the peruviana species group.