Genus Discheramocephalus Johnson, 2007

Type species Discheramocephalus semisulcatus Johnson, 2007 .

Discheramocephalus Johnson, 2007: 223; Grebennikov 2008: 314 (key to the genus Discheramocephalus); 2009: 117; Darby 2013: 240; 2016: 418 (key to the Peruvian Discheramocephalus); 2019: 21 (key to the genera of the Sarawakian Ptiliidae); 2020: 14.

Distribution. Eastern Palearctic (South Korea) and Pantropical (Afrotropical realm: Cameroon, Ecuador, Madagascar, Tanzania; Australasian realm: Solomon Islands; Indomalayan realm: Indonesia, Malaysia; Neotropical realm: Bolivia, Peru) distribution. Additionally, some undescribed Discheramocephalus species are known from the USA: Florida (Dybas 1980, as “undescribed genus”), Brazil, Congo, Sri Lanka (Johnson 2007), and Australia: Queensland (Grebennikov 2008).