Teratoptera Malloch, 1933

Teratoptera Malloch, 1933b: 387 [ Teratomyza (Teratoptera)]. Type-species: Teratomyza (Teratoptera) chilensis Malloch, 1933 (orig. des.). Gender feminine. Ref. Malloch 1933b: 387 (key, desc.); Hennig 1936: 91 (syst., as subgenus, in Anthomyzidae); Stuardo Ortiz 1946: 140 (cat.); Frey 1958: 31 (key, n. stat.); Hennig 1965: 164 – 165 (syst. notes); Prado 1975: 1 (cat.); Vockeroth 1989: 562 (cat.); McAlpine & Keyzer 1994: 310 (key, taxon. notes), 315 (reds.).

chilensis (Malloch, 1933b: 388) [ Teratomyza (Teratoptera)]. Type locality: Chile, Ancud. Distr. Chile (Los Lagos, Los Ríos). Holotype *female (NHM). Ref.

Teratomyza (Teratoptera) chilensis; Malloch 1933b: 387 (taxon. notes, key), 388 (desc.), plate VII (figs. 12, 14); Stuardo Ortiz 1946: 140 (cat.); Prado 1975: 1 (cat.).

Teratoptera chilensis; McAlpine & Keyzer 1994: 315 (taxon. notes), 316 (n. comb., figs, taxon. notes).

*Comments: Malloch (1933b), in the original description of the species, indicated the holotype as male. McAlpine & Keyzer (1994) informed that, in fact, the type is a female.