Platypalpus Macquart, 1827

González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2021, A catalog of the Hybotidae of Chile (Diptera: Empidoidea), Zootaxa 5005 (2), pp. 161-174 : 167-168

Genus Platypalpus Macquart, 1827

Platypalpus Macquart, 1827: 92 . Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775 , (subs. des.; Westwood, 1840: 132). Evenhuis et al., 2016: 102–103 (tax.).

Coryneta Meigen, 1800: 27 . Type-species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775 (subs. des.; Engel, 1939: 43). Suppressed by ICNZ, 1963: 339; Musca cimicoides Fabricius, 1779 (= Musca arrogans Linnaeus, 1761 ) by designation of Evenhuis & Pape, 2017: 29 (tax.).

Platipalpus Macquart, 1850: 480 (unjustified). Evenhuis et al., 2016: 103 (tax.)

References. Bigot, 1857: 563 (in key); Bigot, 1889: 123 (in key); Coquillet,1903: 255–256 (list), 261 (in key); Melander, 1928: 217 (in key), 316–317 (diag.); Curran, 1934: 214 (in key); Steyskal & Knutson, 1981: 611 (in key); Sabrosky, 1999: 250 (cat.); Sinclair & Cumming, 2006: 43 (gen.), 70 (com.), 79 (list); Cumming & Sinclair, 2009: 657 (in key), 668 (com.); Sinclair & Cumming, 2017: 1244 (in key), 1247 (com.); Wahlberg & Johanson, 2018: 633 (list); González & Llanos, 2019: 121 (list).

Remarks. Platypalpus includes more than 500 described species from all zoogeographical regions, but the Neotropical fauna is poorly studied with 22 registered species ( Freitas-Silva & Ale-Rocha 2013), six of them from Chile ( Philippi 1865; Bezzi 1909; Collin 1933), and has representatives in Peru ( Melander 1902; Bezzi 1909), Brazil ( Philippi 1865; Bezzi 1909; Smith 1962) and Ecuador ( Freitas-Silva & Ale-Rocha 2013).