Pherbellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 695

Murphy, William L., González, Christian R. & Elgueta, Mario, 2022, A catalog of the Sciomyzidae of Chile, with a key to genera (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea), Zootaxa 5099 (2), pp. 261-278 : 266

Genus Pherbellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 695

Type-species: Pherbellia vernalis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 696 (monotypy) (= Musca punctata Fabricius, 1794: 347 ).

Melina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 695 (preocc. Retzius 1788: 22). Type-species: Melina riparia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 695 (monotypy)— Sciomyza dubia Fallén, 1820: 13 . Malloch 1933: 298 (key), 302 (comments regarding morphology).

Chetocera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 697 ( Coquillett 1910: 567) . Type-species: Chetocera claripennis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (monotypy) = Sciomyza albocostata Fallén, 1820 .

Graphomyzina Macquart, 1835: 558 . Type-species: Graphomizina elegans Macquart, 1835: 559 (original designation)— Sciomyza limbata Meigen, 1830: 17 .

Notopherbellia Malloch, 1933: 311 . Type-species: Notopherbellis chiloensis Malloch, 1933: 311 (original designation).

Sciomyza of authors, not Fallén, 1820. Malloch 1933: 298 (key).

References. Malloch 1933: 298 (key), 308 (comments regarding morphology); Stuardo 1946: 151 (catalog); Rozkošný 1964 (revision); Bratt et al. 1969 (biology); Steyskal & Knutson 1975: 275 (key); Knutson et al. 1976: 4–5 (catalog); Orth et al. 1980 (geographic distribution, morphology, taxonomy); Knutson et al. 1990 (taxonomy); Marinoni 1995: 58, 131 (list); Marinoni & Mathis 2000: 163–164 (phylogeny); 165 (table 1 character states); 166, 170 (phylogeny); 171 (fig. 11 antenna; biology); 174 (phylogeny); 178, 182, 187 (figs. 76, 123, 169 male terminalia); 187 (list); 193 (figs. 220, 221 male terminalia); 195 (phylogeny); 204 (fig. 323 phylogeny); Barker et al. 2004: 220 (morphology), 224 (morphology larvae); Marinoni & Knutson 2010: 1021 (key), 1022 (comments); Knutson & Vala 2011 (biology; keys to adults, larvae, and puparia; evolution; geographic distribution; systematics; world checklist); Murphy et al. 2012: 427 (number of species in genus; geographic distribution), 428–437 (biology); Vala et al. 2013 (comments); Murphy et al. 2018: 61–64 (redescription, comments).

Remarks. L.V. Knutson noted (unpubl.) that at least four undescribed species from Chile and Argentina, including three undescribed species near P. chiloensis , are in CUIC, MZUSP, NHMUK, and USNM.