Plecia Wiedemann, 1828: 72

Fitzgerald, Scott J., González, Christian R & Elgueta, Mario, 2020, A catalog of the Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) of Chile, Zootaxa 4766 (1), pp. 48-60 : 50

Genus Plecia Wiedemann, 1828: 72

Type species: Hirtea fulvicollis Fabricius 1805: 53 (designated by Blanchard, 1840: 576).

= * Protomyia Heer, 1849: 231 . Type species: Protomyia lygaeoides Heer, 1849: 232 (designated by Carpenter 1992: 414), [study of type by Skartveit & Nel 2017].

= Rhinoplecia Bellardi, 1859: 16. Type species: R. rostrata Bellardi (mon.).

= Penthera Philippi, 1865: 639 . Type species: P. nigra Philippi (mon.).

=* Epiplecia Giard, 1879: 13 . Type species: Protomyia joannis Oustalet, 1870: 143 (mon.). (n.syn.; see Fitzgerald 2004: 273–274 and Skartveit & Nel 2017: 80 for discussion).

= Heteroplecia Hardy, 1950: 75 (as subgenus of Plecia Wiedemann ). Type species: Plecia visenda Hardy (mon.). (n.syn.; see Fitzgerald 2004: 274 for discussion).

= Pleciodes Hardy, 1952: 76 (as subgenus of Plecia Wiedemann ). Type species Plecia ephippium Speiser, 1909: 38 (designated by Hardy 1952). (n.syn.; see Fitzgerald 2004: 274 for discussion).

=* Lacibibio Hong, In Hong et al. 1980: 47. Type species: Lacibibio fushunensis Hong, In Hong et al. 1980: 47-48 (original designation). [Synonymized by Zhang 1989: 336; as Plecia sp.].

Refs.: Hardy, 1945: 367–547 (rev. Neotropical species); Hardy, 1959: 441–454 (cat. Neotropical species); Hardy, 1966: 2–6 (cat. Neotropical species); Hetrick, 1970: 23–26 (biol.); Callahan & Denmark, 1973: 113–119 (biol.); Kish et al., 1974: 281–284 (biol.); Leppla et al., 1974: 323–326 (biol.); Sharp et al., 1974: 735–738 (biol.); Trimble, 1974: 353–359 (male gen.); Whitesell, 1974: 1038–1039 (biol.); Kuitert, 1975: 212 (imm.sta.); Leppla et al., 1975: 299–305 (male gen.); Thompson, 1975: 87–91 (tax., key., male gen.); Buschman, 1976: 191–194 (dist.); Thornhill, 1976a: 45–53 (biol.); Thornhill, 1976c: 843–847 (biol.); Van Handel, 1976: 215–216 (biol.); Chambers, 1977: 537–540 (biol.); Kish et al., 1977: 291–295 (biol.); Thornhill, 1980: 405–412 (biol.); Hieber & Cohen, 1983: 987–992 (biol.); Callahan, 1985: 1094–1097 (biol.); Callahan et al., 1985: 1088–1093 (biol.); Denmark & Mead, 1992: 10 pp. (biol., dist., tax., key); Blaschke-Berthold, 1994: 94–96, 116–121 (phy., male gen.); Pinto & Amorim, 1996: 313–319 (des., imm.sta.); Cherry, 1998: 559–562 (biol.); Fitzgerald, 1998: 133–166 (tax.); Cherry & Raid, 2000: 94–96 (biol.); Fitzgerald, 2000: 627–634 (species list, dist. Mexico); Pinto & Amorim, 2000: 1–98 (phy., biol.); Bravo et al., 2001: 157–165 (tax.); Fitzgerald, 2004: 15–17 (summary of biol.), 187 (fem.gen), 33–257 (phy.), 273–281 (redes., diag., dist., imm.sta.); Fitzgerald, 2009: 249 (in key); Falaschi et al. 2016: 21–23 (cat.); Ševčík et al., 2016: 11–13, 19 (phy.).