Genus ANTICHETA Haliday, 1838

Sixteen species worldwide, seven Palearctic, eight Nearctic, and two that occur in the Americas south of the United States

Sciomyza, subgenus Antichaeta Haliday, 1838: 187 [Hendel 1902: 78 (generic status), Steyskal 1960b (world revision, subgenera, key to species)]. Note: Haliday’s paper was published in November 1838 in the 1839 issue of Annals of Natural History.

Type-species: Tetanocera vittata Haliday, 1833: 168 (original designation) = Sciomyza analis Meigen, 1830: 15 (by original designation)

Antichaeta, emendation by Agassiz 1848: 76

Heteropteryx Hendel, 1902: 81 (preoccupied Gray 1835: 13, 32–33) [Knutson 1966: 72]

Type-species: Sciomyza brevipennis Zetterstedt, 1846: 2102 (monotypic). Palearctic

Hemitelopteryx Cresson, 1920: 51 (nomen novum for Heteropteryx Hendel) [Knutson 1966: 72]

Type-species: Sciomyza brevipennis Zetterstedt, 1846: 2102 (automatic). Palearctic

Lioya Enderlein, 1939: 205 . [Steyskal 1960b: 18]

Type-species: Sciomyza atriseta Loew, 1849: 340 (original designation). Palearctic

Parantichaeta Enderlein, 1936: 145 (monotypic) [Steyskal 1960b: 18, as subgenus, new status]

Type-species: Antichaeta bisetosa Hendel, 1902: 78 (monotypic)