Genus DICTYA Meigen, 1803

One Palearctic species and 55 Western Hemisphere species of which 23 occur in the Americas south of the United States.

DICTYA Meigen, 1803: 277 [Steyskal 1954b (revision, key to species), Orth 1991 (revision, key to species)]

Included species: “ Musca cucullaria, umbrarum Fabricius ” [sic; Linnaeus, not Fabricius]

Type-species: Musca umbrarum Linnaeus, 1758: 599; by subsequent designation, Cresson 1920: 69 (traditional type pending submission of proposal to I.C.Z.N. for fixation of type-species)

Monochaetophora Hendel, 1900: 355 [Melander 1920: 322]

Type-species: Musca umbrarum, Linnaeus 1758: 599 (monotypic)