Nothybus Rondani, 1875

Nothybus Rondani 1875: 439 [as Tanypezinae]. Type species, Nothybus longithorax Rondani, 1875: 439 [= N. longicollis Walker, 1856: 135], by monotypy. Osten-Sacken 1882: 195 [treated as Tylidae (= Micropezidae)]; Enderlein 1922: 175 [key to genera, review of genus, treated as Calobatinae]; Frey 1927: 66 [erection of family Nothybidae, discussion of family relationships], 1958: 37 [Oriental species, key, genus review, new species]; Hennig 1936: 229, 1965: 50 [superfamily relationships], 1971: 30 [discussion of Nothyboidea], 1973: 144 [handbook of zoology]; Aczél 1955: 1 [family review, key]; Griffiths 1972: 113 [male postabdomen]; D.K. McAlpine 1974: 89 [behaviour of N. decorus [= N. lineifer] and two species tentatively identified as N. decorus and N. triguttatus], 1997b: 168 [discussion of family and position in Diopsoidea]; Steyskal 1977: 30 [Oriental catalogue]; Evenhuis 1989: 475 [mention of two undescribed species in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands]; Ferrar 1987: 253 [immature stages unknown]; J.F. McAlpine 1989: 1434 [definition, mention of viviparous larva, position in Diopsoidea]; Galinskaya & Shatalkin 2015: 581 [Vietnam].