Subgenus Lutzomyia (Helcocyrtomyia) Barretto, 1962

Helcocyrtomyia Barretto, 1962: 96 (as subgenus of Lutzomyia).

Type species: Phlebotomus peruensis Shannon, 1929, original designation.

Additional references: Martins et al. (1978), Williams (1991, taxonomy, distribution); Artemiev (1991, in part), Young & Duncan (1994, references, taxonomy revision), Galati (1995, phylogenetic analysis), Galati (2003, listed, keys), Ibáñez-Bernal et al. (2015, taxonomic history, diagnosis), Shimabukuro et al. (2017, listed), Galati (2018, list of species, key), Galati (2021, classification, keys).

Phlebotomus species group Vexator of Fairchild & Hertig, 1957: 325 (species keyed).

Phlebotomus species group Sanguinarius of Ortiz, 1965b: 25 (in part).

Lutzomyia species group Vexatrix of Theodor, 1965: 183 (defined), Lewis et al., 1977: 325 (as species group Vexator).

Lutzomyia (Lutzomyia) França: Forattini, 1971: 99 (in part); Forattini, 1973: 212 (in part).

Psychodopygus (Trichophoromyia) Barretto: Forattini, 1971: 105 (in part); Forattini, 1973: 416 (in part).

Isolutzomyia Artemiev, 1991: 72 (in part). Type species: Lutzomyia cirrita Young & Porter, 1974, by original designation.

Lutzomyia (Sauromyia) Artemiev, 1991: 74 (in part). Type species: Phlebotomus oswaldoi Mangabeira, 1942a .