Subgenus Phaiosterna Cresson

Phaiosterna Cresson, 1916: 104. Type species, Paralimna decipiens Loew, 1878, orig. des. Refs.: Cresson, 1947a: 54–55 (review, Neotropical species); 1947b: 115–117 (review, Afrotropical species, key); 1948: 9–11 (review, Australasian species, key); Wirth, 1965: 748 (Nearctic catalog); 1968: 16 (Neotropical catalog); Cogan & Wirth, 1977: 334 (syn. with Paralimna); Cogan, 1980: 663–664 (Afrotropical catalog, as the subgenus Paralimna in part); Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 1995: 126–127 (world cat.); 2002: 67–88 (rev.).