Bruchomyiinae

The subfamily Bruchomyiinae contains genera of moth flies in the order Diptera, was originally described by the American entomologist Charles Paul Alexander.^[1]

Bruchomyiinae
Notofairchildia zelandiae (previously placed in Nemopalpus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Psychodidae
Subfamily:	Bruchomyiinae Alexander, 1921[1]

Circumscription

For many years the Bruchomyiinae consisted of just three genera, distinguished by the number of segments in the antennae: Bruchomyia (24-29 segments), Eutonnoiria (111 segments) and Nemopalpus (14 segments). A number of species of the cosmopolitan genus Nemopalpus were transferred in 2016, to the genera: Boreofairchildia, Laurenceomyia and Notofairchildia,^[2] with oriental species subsequently (2018) placed in Alexanderia.^[3]

Genera

Systema Dipterorum currently includes:^[4]

• Alexanderia Wagner & Kvifte, 2018^[5] (Oriental)
• Boreofairchildia Wagner & Stuckenberg, 2016^[2] (Americas)
• Bruchomyia Alexander, 1921^[1] (South America):
• Eutonnoiria Alexander, 1940^[6] (Central Africa)
• Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg, 2016^[2] (South America)
• Nemopalpus Macquart, 1838
• Notofairchildia Wagner & Stuckenberg, 2016^[2]
• †Hoffeinsodes Wagner, 2017 Baltic amber, Eocene
• †Palaeoglaesum Wagner, 2017