Genus Diplonevra Lioy, 1864

Diplonevra Lioy, 1864: 77 . Type species: Bibio florea Fabricius, 1794 (= Musca florescens Turton, 1801) (by subsequent designation by Enderlein, 1924: 272).

Diploneura Enderlein, 1924: 272 (unjustified emendation of Diplonevra).

Phorynchus Brunetti, 1912: 504. Type species: Phorynchus ater Brunetti, 1912 (by monotypy).

Pentagynoplax Enderlein, 1924: 273. Type species: Phora crassicornis Meigen, 1830 (by original designation).

Apopteromyia Beyer, 1958: 121 (subgenus of Diplonevra). Type species: Diplonevra gynaptera Fuller & Lee, 1938 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis for genus (modified from Corona & Brown 2005; Liu & Yang 2016). Frons with one pair of reclinate supra-antennal bristles. Anepisternum bare, undivided. Midtibia with one pair of bristles on basal half (one anterodorsal, one posterodorsal). Inner face of male trochanter and basal portion of hind femur usually with modified stout setae and hairs. Hind tibia with 2 or 3 dorsal longitudinal setal palisades. Wing vein R 2+3 present. One to few setae limited to basal quarter of vein Rs. More than single alular seta present. Male cercus (=anal tube of Disney 1990) cylindrically elongated with one pair of small sclerites dorsoapically.