Genus Schizomyia Kieffer

Schizomyia Kieffer, 1889: 183 . Type species, galiorum Kieffer, 1889 (mon.). Parasphondylia Kieffer, 1913b: 93 . Type species, variicornis Kieffer, 1913b (orig. des.). Schyzomya, Schizomya Del Guercio, 1918: 126, missp. of Schizomyia . Shizomyia Shinji, 1938a: 239, missp. of Schizomyia .

Comm.: Cosmopolitan; 55 spp. Schizomyia is associated with 26 plant families. It is an artificial genus that gathers species with needlelike ovipositors, four-segmented palpi, and larvae with four pairs of terminal papillae present. Refs.: Gagné & Menjivar, 2008 (review Neotropical spp.); Gagné & Jaschhof, 2014 (cat.).