Genus Forcipomyia Meigen

Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818: 73, 75. Type species, Tipula bipunctata Linnaeus, Westwood, 1840: 126 (des.). Generic name first published in synonymy with Ceratopogon but available under I.C.Z.N Code Article 11(e). Refs.: Debenham, 1987 (key to males and females to subgenera from Australasian Region which includes all Neotropical subgenera other than Rhynchoforcipomyia and Saliohelea); Ingram & Macfie, 1931 (key to males and females from Patagonia and southern Chile); Wirth & Ratanaworabhan, 1978 (key to females to subgenera; their genus A near Lepidohelea = Pedilohelea).

Tetraphora Philippi, 1865: 630 . Type species, Tetraphora fusca Philippi (mon.).