Genus Philosepedon Eaton, 1904

Type-species: Psychoda humeralis Meigen, 1818 (by orig. des.).

Philosepedon Eaton, 1904 (as genus): 57; Vaillant, 1973: 355; Ježek, 1985: 70; Withers, 1989: 29; Wagner, 1997: 214; Krek, 1999: 84.

Philosepedon auct. (nec Eaton, 1904) partim; Quate & Quate, 1967: 138; Duckhouse, 1973: 10; Quate, 1996: 47; Collantes & Ortega, 1999: 23; Chagas et al., 2009: 2.

Psychoda auct. (nec Latreille, 1796) partim; Meigen, 1818: 106; Strobl, 1910: 271; Abreu, 1930: 112; Freeman, 1950: 91; Sarà, 1958: 10.

Philosepedon (subgenus of the genus Psychoda auct.); Tonnoir, 1919: 14; Jung, 1956: 190; Szabó, 1960: 213; Nielsen, 1961: 146; Rozkošný, 1971: 141.

Pericoma auct. (nec Haliday, 1856), partim; Eaton, 1898: 157.

Note. Only the most pertinent and adequate references to our narrowed view (not Philosepedon Eaton, 1904 auct.) are included in the synonymy above.

Diagnosis. The genus Eurygarka Quate, 1959 can be keyed by flagellomeres with a pair of broad threebranched spathiform ascoids, with multiple longitudinal vein-like lines; ventral epandrial plate distinctly developed, conspicuously setose. These characters contrast with the genus Philosepedon Eaton, 1904, which has a pair of ascoids with relatively elongate triangular or narrow three branches and ventral epandrial plate is membranous, not clearly differentiated from epandrium (see Table 1).

Trichopsychodina Ježek, 1985 (= Threticina Vaillant, 1991)

ascoids aedeagus / aedeagal parameres number of ventral epandrial

complex retinacula plate