Abstract

The position of the several genera of Stratiomyidae treated in this paper has been a subject of considerable disagreement. Macquart (1834, 1838) laid the foundation for the classification of this subfamily when he described Hoplistes, Dicranophora, Rhaphiocera and Basentidema; and, although these genera did not come together in his outline classification, they were numbered consecutively (16 to 19 respectively) and followed each other in the text. Loew (1855) proposed the name Analcocerus and considered this genus, together with the four of Macquart, in his discussion of the “Sargus-Arten.” Schiner (1868) proposed the generic name Histiodroma for Sargus inermis Wied., and the subfamily name Rhaphiocerinae in essentially the same sense in which it is used in the present paper.

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