Subfamily Microdontinae Rondani, 1845

Genus Microdon Meigen, 1803

Microdon Meigen, 1803: 275 . Type-species, Musca mutabilis Linnaeus (mon.). Refs. Curran, 1941: 248–250 (key to Neo- tropical spp.); Thompson, 1969: 74–85 (key and notes); Thompson, 1981: 112 (key and illustrations of West Indies spp.); Thompson, 1999a: 332 (key); Cheng & Thompson, 2008: 25, 40 (key, diagnosis and notes); Reemer & Ståhls, 2013: 16, 21 (key, diagnosis and taxonomic notes), figs 27–34 (habitus dorsal, wing, male genitalia, head lateral).

Aphritis Latreille, 1804: 193 . Type-species, A. auropupescens Latreille, 1805 (mon.).

Colacis Gistel, 1848: x. (nom. nov. for Microdon Meigen).

Parmula Heyden, 1825: 589 . Type-species, P. cocciformis Heyden, 1825: 589 (mon.).

Scutelligera Spix, 1824: 148 . Type-species, S. ammerlandia Spix, 1824: 124 (mon.).

Scutigerella Haas, 1924: 148 . Misspelling of Spix 1824.

Subgenus Microdon Meigen, 1803