GENUS RETELLIA ROBINEAU-DESVOIDY, 1830

Two species, South America only

RETELLIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 683 .— Oken 1831: 1248 [in catalog].— Agassiz 1846: 322 [in index].— Walker 1849: 1087 [in list of Diptera in the British Museum].— d’Orbigny 1861: 82 [in dictionary of natural history].— Schiner 1868: 227 [in list of genera he considered to be synonyms of Tetanocera Duméril].— Scudder 1884: 275 [in list of all generic names employed by naturalists through close of year 1879].— Hendel 1923: 205 [in list of genera of Sciomyzidae in the Neotropical Region].— Sherborn 1922 –1932: 5473 [1930] [in catalog of every living and extinct animal].— Neave 1940: 23 [in list of every genus and subgenus in zoology published since the 10th edition of Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae in 1758].—Knutson et al. 1976: 64.7 [“Although this name has priority, we prefer to maintain Dictyodes as the valid name, in the interests of stability.”].— Evenhuis & Thompson 1990: 253 [in list of Diptera in d’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire].— Marinoni & Mathis 2000: 162–209 [in cladistic analysis of Sciomyzidae (as Dictyodes Malloch, 1933)].— Evenhuis et al. 2010: 143 [as valid genus: “Knutson et al. (1976: 7) preferred to recognize Dictyodes Malloch, 1933 over Retellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830, explaining that reversing this would upset stability. Retellia is not preoccupied and is a senior synonym of Dictyodes Malloch, 1933 . We do not agree that giving priority to Retellia would upset stability since neither genus-group name is pervasive in the literature. There seems to be about the same amount of usage (about ten published works each), with Dictyodes being used more recently.”].— Murphy et al. 2021: 147–168 [synonymy with Dictyodes, nomenclature, key to similarappearing genera in the Neotropical Region, key to species].

Type-species: Retellia claropunctata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 683 (as “ Retellia claro-punctata ”) (monotypic)

Dictyodes Malloch, 1933: 321 .— Steyskal 1974: 427–430 [generic revision, key to genera of Tetanocerini with setae on vallar ridge [= subalar sclerite].—Knutson et al. 1976: 64.7 [in catalog of the Sciomyzidae of the Americas south of the United States].— Murphy et al. 2021: 147–168 [synonymy with Retellia, nomenclature].

Type-species: Dictyodes dictyodes (Wiedemann), 1830: 583 ( Tetanocera).— Steyskal 1974: 427 [generic revision].—Knutson et al. 1976: 64.7 [in catalog of the Sciomyzidae of the Americas south of the United States].— Murphy et al. 2021: 147–168 [synonymy with Retellia claropunctata].

HT: ♀ [Brazil], “Rio de Janeiro.” ZMHB, unnumbered