Pericomaini

Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, 2019, New records of Norwegian Psychodidae, with the first description of the female of Trichosepedon balkanicum (Krek, 1970) comb. nov., Norwegian Journal of Entomology 66, pp. 1-10 : 6

Tribe Pericomaini

The traditional tribe-level taxa Paramormiini and Pericomaini have been questioned in several recent phylogenetic studies. Espíndola et al. (2012) resolved a paraphyletic Paramormiini with respect to Pericomaini , and Kvifte (2018) showed the opposite pattern and therefore chose to treat both taxa as a single taxon, Pericomaini s.l. For the sake of convenience, I here treat the traditional Paramormiini and Pericomaini as subtribes, stat. nov., although since neither of these groupings are defined by unique synapomorphies this is unlikely to reflect their phylogenetic affinities.

* Subtribe ”Paramormiina”