Genus Pseudomelpia Enderlein, 1922: 343

Type-species: Pseudomelpia horrens Enderlein, 1925 (sub. des., Enderlein, 1925: 312).

References. Kröber, 1930e: 136 (in key); Ruíz, 1929 238 (list); Borgmeier, 1933: 300 (tax.); Fraga, 1936: 248 (in key); Stuardo, 1946: 66 (cat.); Barretto, 1960: 61 (list), 62 (in key); Coscarón & Papavero, 1993: 18 (in key, as subgenus of Scaptia)); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 38 (cat., as subgenus of Scaptia); Coscarón, 1998: 349 (list, dist.); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009a: 9 (in key, as subgenus of Scaptia); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 47 (cat., as subgenus of Scaptia); Lessard, 2014: 206, fig.4, 214, 239 (rev., gen. sta.).