Genus Desmometopa Loew

Desmometopa Loew, 1866: 184 . Type species, Agromyza m-atrum Meigen, 1830: 170 (des. Hendel, 1903:251) = Madiza sordida (Fallén, 1820) . Refs.: Sabrosky, 1958: 4 –5 (fauna & key, East Africa); Sabrosky, 1964: 310 (fauna, Malaysia); Sabrosky, 1965a: 731 (Nearctic cat.); Sabrosky, 1965b: 2 –5 (fauna, East Africa); Sabrosky, 1973: 2 (Neotropical cat.); Sabrosky, 1977: 270 –271 (Oriental cat.); Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 353 –358 (fauna & key, Hawaii); Sabrosky, 1980: 686 - 687 (Afrotropical cat.); Sabrosky, 1983 (world rev., species); Papp, 1984a: 114 –115 (Palaearctic cat.); Sabrosky, (1987a, Nearctic manual & generic key); Sabrosky, 1989: 555 (Australasian & Oceanian cat.); Iwasa, 1996 (key & fauna Japan); Papp & Wheeler, 1998 (Palaearctic manual & generic key); Brake, 2000 (systematics, world generic key & cat.); Swann, 2000 (fauna, Namibia); Swann, 2010 (Central American faunal review & generic key).

Platophrymyia Williston, 1896: 426 . Type species, nigra Williston by monotypy = tarsalis Loew, 1866 (synonymy by Sabrosky, 1973).

Desmetopa Hendel, 1902:262 -264. (misspelling)

Liodesma Duda, 1935a: 25 . (as subgenus of Desmometopa). Type species, atra Duda 1935a (orig. des.) = sordida (Fallén, 1820) (synomomy by Sabrosky, 1973).

Liodesmometopa Duda, 1935a:24. (invalid; first published as synonym of Liodesma Duda).

Litometopa Sabrosky, 1965b: 4 . Type species, glabrifrons Sabrosky, 1965b, 4 (orig. des.) (synonymy by Brake & Freidberg, 2003).