Genus Seioptera Kirby & Spence, 1817: 305 .

Type-species: Musca vibrans Linnaeus, 1758 by mon.

References. Loew, 1868a: 295–297 (reds., as Seoptera); Osten Sacken, 1878: 185 (cat., as Seoptera); Hendel, 1910: 11 (in key), 69–71 (diag., as Seoptera); Curran, 1934: 277 (in key, as Seioptera); Harriot, 1942 (com.); Steyskal, 1956 (rev.); Steyskal, 1968: 11 (cat.); Thompson et al., 1999: 279 (tax.).