Psychodini Newman, 1834

Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, 2015, The Afrotropical genera of Psychodini: Redefinition of the tribe, first Afrotropical record of Perithreticus Vaillant, 1973 and description of Soeliella gen. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae), Zootaxa 3986 (1), pp. 115-126 : 117

Psychodini Newman, 1834

Diagnosis. Flagellomeres nodiform except the apical 2–4, which are globular and diminutive; ascoids with two anterior branches and one posterior branch (in some species with one or three anterior branches); fourth palpomere fully sclerotized, not striated; anepisternum with large anterior spiracle; anepimeron rectangular or triangular; Sc thickened relative to other wing veins, terminating before origin of R5 and not connecting apically to any other wing veins. R5 terminating in wing apex; wing membrane with or without setae, with one or two costal breaks; aedeagus symmetrical or asymmetrical, distiphallus without distally jointed elements; one or two parameres present in most species, arising from dorsal margin of gonocoxal condyles, often connected to distiphallus and ventral epandrial plate, moveable in the mediolateral (horizontal) plane; surstyli with one to several spatulate tenacula in a single row distally (in Trichopsychoda Tonnoir with complex subapical tenacula present as well).