Genus Lonchaea Fallén

Lonchaea Fallén, 1820: 25 .

Type species: Musca chorea Fabricius, 1781: 444, by subsequent designation of Westwood, 1840: 150.

Lasiolonchaea Enderlein, 1936 152, junior synonym.

Type species: Lonchaea hirticeps Zetterstedt, 1838: 754 .

Mastigimas Enderlein, 1927: 105, junior synonym.

Type species: Mastigimas togoensis Enderlein,1927:105 .

Teremyia Macquart, 1835: 514, junior synonym.

Type species: Lonchaea laticornis Meigen, 1826: 308 .

Tricholonchaea Czerny, 1934: 21, junior synonym.

Type species: Lonchaea albitarsis Zetterstedt, 1838: 754 .

References: Fallén, 1820: 25 (des.); Malloch, 1933: 349 (com.); Hennig, 1948: 340 (key); Hellmuth, 1954: 57-58 (fig. 5- 7 larvae); J.F. McAlpine, 1962: 69 (phyl.), 72 (key), 74 (phyl.), 78 (com.), 144 (reds.), 145 (diag.), 146 (biol.), 150 (dist., com.), 152 (phyl.); Hennig, 1967: 14 (phyl.); Korytkoioski & Ojeda, 1971: 88 (com.), 89 (key), 100 (cat., list, dist., key); J.F. McAlpine, 1974: 777 (com.); J.F. McAlpine,1983:885 (com.);J.F. McAlpine, 1987:796 (key); Papavero & Ibañez-Bernal, 2001: 172 (tabs.); MacGowan & Friedberg, 2008: 64 (key); Miranda, 2009: 140 (biol.); Norrbom & Korytkowski, 2010: 860 (fig. 14-19: mal. gen.), 860 (fig. 20-21: fem. gen.), 861 (fig. 22 wing, 24- 26 larvae), 862 (key); MacGowan, 2022 (database).