Genus Pelecorhynchus Macquart, 1850

Pelecorhynchus Macquart, 1850: 332 . Type species: Pelecorhynchus maculipennis Macquart, 1850 (= Silvius personatus Walk- er, 1848), by orig. des. Ref.: Evenhuis et al. 2016: 98 (tax.).

= Coenura Bigot, 1857: 286 . Type species: Coenura longicauda Bigot, 1857, by mon. Refs.: Enderlein, 1922: 336 (as valid genera for Chilean species); Sabrosky, 1999: 95 (cat.); Evenhuis & Pont, 2004: 20 (tax.).

= Caenopnygna Thomson, 1869: 449. Type species: Caenopnygna maculipennis Thomson, 1869 (= Silvius personatus Walker, 1848), by mon.

= Archeomyia Philip, 1941: 3. Type species: Pelecorhynchus fulvus Ricardo, 1910, by orig. des.

Refs.: Walker, 1848: 192 (list, as Silvius in Tabanidae); Bigot, 1856: 75 (in key); Bigot, 1857: 286 (des.); Loew, 1860: 14, 15 (com.); Schiner, 1868: 74 (com., as Coenura in Coenomyidae), 98 (des., in Tabanidae); Brauer, 1880: 1, 4, 31 (com.); Reed, 1888: 284 (cat., as Coenura); Bigot, 1891: 415 (in key); Ricardo, 1900: 98 (in key, as Pelecorhynchus), 101–103 (com.); Hunter, 1901: 133 (cat., as Coenura); Kertész, 1908: 148–149 (cat., as Coenura); Ricardo, 1910: 402 (rev.); Hardy, 1915: 60 (com.); White, 1915: 22 (com.); Hardy, 1917: 63 (com., in Tabanidae); Taylor, 1918: 53 (des., in subfamily Pangoniinae of Tabanidae); Hardy, 1920: 33 (rev.); Surcouf, 1921a: 221 (rev.), 222 (key to species); Surcouf, 1921b: 96 (in key in Tabanidae), 110 (diag.); Enderlein, 1922: 336 (in key, subfamily Pelecorhynchinae in Tabanidae); Bequaert, 1924: 27 (com.), 37 (in key as subfamily of Tabanidae); Enderlein, 1925: 261 (in key as Pelecorhynchinae), 261 (in key as Pelecorhynchus), 262 (as Coenura); Edwards & Shannon, 1927: 654 (list); Ruíz, 1929: 237 (com.); Kröber, 1930b: 113 (as Coenura, as Pelecorhynchinae); Kröber, 1934: 231 (cat., as Coenura in Pelecorhynchinae of Tabanidae); Brennan, 1935: 377 (com.); Mackerras & Fuller, 1942: 9 (rev.); Stuardo, 1946: 67 (cat., in Tabanidae); Hack, 1951: 165 (in key, as a subfamily of Tabanidae); Steyskal, 1953: 239–240 (com., in Tabanidae); Brues et al., 1954: 328 (in key as Pelecorhynchinae); Philip, 1968a: 14, 15 (com., in Coenura); Philip, 1968b: 2 (cat.); Pino, 1968: 116, 119 (com.); Pino, 1969: 5 (com.); Hennig, 1972: 5 (com.); Nagatomi, 1975: 462–463 (com.); Nagatomi & Iwata, 1976: 6 (in key), 17 (gen.); Nagatomi, 1977: 329 (com.); Teskey, 1981: 459–460 (com., in key); Nagatomi, 1982a: 38 (com.); Nagatomi, 1982b: 141 (dist.); Nagatomi, 1984: 118 (com., male gen.); Nagatomi & Soroida, 1985: 280–281 (com., mouthparts); Woodley, 1989: 1380–1382 (com., phy.); Krivosheina, 1991: 86 (fig. immature stages); Sinclair et al. 1993: 414 (com., phy.); Krivosheina, 1997: 429–431 (com., in key); Sabrosky, 1999: 27 (list), 236 (tax.); Wiegmann et al., 2000: 1034 (phy.); Stuckenberg, 2001: 11, 13, 18 (com., phy. as subfamily of Rhagionidae); Williams, 2002: 35 (com.); Yeates, 2002: 109, 111 (com., phy.); Zloty et al. 2005: 258–259, 261, 264 (com., phy.); González, 2008: 155 (com.); Santos, 2008: 43 (com.), 49 (biog.); Amorim et al., 2009: 6 (biog.); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009: 2 (cat.); Kerr, 2009: 486 (com.); Yeates et al. 2009: 241 (com., as Rhagionidae); Kerr, 2010: 5–8 (com.); Klassa & Santos, 2015: 530 (biog.); Llanos et al., 2015: 189 (diag., key); Evenhuis et al., 2016: 98 (list); Morita et al., 2016: 62 (phy.); Fachin et al., 2018: 557 (com.).