Psychoda Latreille

Bejarano, Eduar Elías & Estrada, Luis Gregorio, 2016, FAMILY PSYCHODIDAE, Zootaxa 4122 (1), pp. 187-238 : 212

Genus Psychoda Latreille

Psychoda Latreille, 1796: 152 . Type species, Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 (mon.).

Tinearia Schellenberg, 1803 : pl. 40. Type species, Psychoda alternata Say, 1824 (sub. des., Coquillett, 1910: 615).

Trichoptera Meigen, 1803: 261 . Type species, Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 (sub. des., Coquillett, 1910: 616).

Logima Eaton, 1904: 58 . Type species, Psychoda erminea Eaton, 1904 (orig. des.).

Copropsychoda Vaillant, 1971: 30. Type species, Psychoda brevicornis Tonnoir, 1940 (mon.).

Psychodocha Ježek, 1984: 135 . Type species, Psychoda cinerea Banks, 1894 (orig. des.).

Psycha Ježek, 1984: 136. Type species, Psychoda grisescens Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Psychomora Ježek, 1984: 137 . Type species, Psychoda trinodulosa Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Chodopsycha Ježek, 1984: 138. Type species, Psychoda lobata Tonnoir, 1940 (orig. des.).

Psychodula Ježek, 1984: 138. Type species, Psychoda minuta Banks, 1894 (orig. des.).

Ypsydocha Ježek, 1984: 140. Type species, Psychoda setigera Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Falsologima Ježek & van Harten, 1996: 73 . Type species, Psychoda savaiiensis Edwards, 1928 (orig. des.).

Psychana Ježek & van Harten, 2005: 207. Type species, Psychoda rujumensis Ježek & van Harten, 2005 (orig. des.).

Apsycha Ježek, 2007: 146 . Type species, Psychoda pusilla Tonnoir, 1922 (orig. des.).

Comm.: With a wide global distribution, this constitutes one of the most species-rich genera of non- haematophagous psychodids with about 450 described species ( Salmela et al. 2012), some of which have become adapted to synanthropic habitats, e.g. Psychoda alternata Say, 1824 , Ps. albipennis Zetterstedt, 1850 and Ps. cinerea Banks, 1894 , and associated with cases of human myiasis, i.e. Ps. alternata and Ps. albipennis ( Kamimura 1967, Oğuz et al. 2012, Yones et al. 2014). The genus has been subjected to different revisions ( Quate 1959, Vaillant 1972, Ježek 1984, Bravo et al. 2006), which range from the recognition of a single genus Psychoda s.l. made up of 12 subgenera ( Bravo et al. 2006), to a división of the taxon in 13 genera ( Ježek 1984, 2007, Ježek & van Harten 2005). Seven of the 75 species found in the Neotropics ( Bravo et al. 2006, 2010a, Cordeiro & Bravo 2008, Ibáñez-Bernal 2008, Cordeiro et al. 2011, Ježek et al. 2011) have been recorded from Colombia and are listed here, without consideration of their subgeneric classification.