CYNORTA C.L. KOCH, 1839

Cynorta C.L. Koch, 1839: 100 (combined description incl. C. conspersa and C. lagenaria). Type species by subsequent designation of Pickard-Cambridge (1904: 554): Cosmetus conspersus Perty, 1833 .

Abria (subgenus of Cynorta C.L. Koch, 1839) Sørensen in Henriksen, 1932: 409 [junior subjective synonym of Cynorta Koch, 1839 by Mello-Leitão (1933: 111)]. Type-species by monotypy: Cynorta innominata Sørensen in Henriksen, 1932.

Diagnosis: see Kury et al. (2007).

Included species: A complete list may be found in Kury et al. (2021) under the heading Cynorta . Some taxonomic changes were made in the last years involving the genus: (1) Kury & García (2016) gave a new name to a misidentified species until then treated as Flirtea picta Perty, 1833: Cynorta pictoides Kury & García, 2016; (2) Kury & Barros (2014) transferred three species ( Cynorta insperata Soares, 1970, Cynorta juruensis Soares, 1970 and Cynorta litterata Soares, 1970) to the new genus Taito; (3) species Neocynorta m-inscripta Mello-Leitão, 1939 was transferred to Cynorta by Medrano et al. (2019).