Genus Elachiptera Macquart

Elachiptera Macquart, 1835: 621 . Type species, Chorops brevipennis Meigen, 1830 (orig. des.). Ref.: Sabrosky & Paganelli, 1984: 12 (cat).

Melanochaeta, authors, in part.

Gampsocera Schiner of Becker (1912, 1916) and Enderlein (1911).