Psychodinae

Psychodinae
Psychoda grisescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Psychodidae
Subfamily: Psychodinae
Rondani, 1858
Psychoda cf. surcoufi on oak leaves

The Psychodinae are the nominate subfamily of moth flies (Psychodidae), also known as drain flies. Like most of their relatives, they are usually found in damp habitats; some occur in caves. The small larvae are aquatic or semiterrestrial; the imagines feed on plant sap and nectar or not at all. Psychodinae are found in almost every country on Earth, including some subantarctic islands.

Tribes and genera

Maruinini Enderlein, 1937
  • Alloeodidicrum Duckhouse, 1990
  • Didicrum Enderlein, 1937
  • Eremolobulosa Duckhouse, 1990
  • Maruina Müller, 1895
  • Paratelmatoscopus Satchell, 1953
  • Rotundopteryx Duckhouse, 1990
Setomimini Vaillant, 1982
  • Arisemus Satchell, 1955
  • Australopericoma Vaillant, 1975
  • Balbagathis Quate, 1996
  • Lobulosa Szabo, 1960
  • Neoarisemus Botosaneanu & Vaillant, 1970
  • Parasetomima Duckhouse, 1968
  • Setomima Enderlein, 1937
  • Tonnoiriella Vaillant, 1982
Mormiini Enderlein, 1937
  • Atrichobrunettia Satchell, 1953
  • Brunettia Annandale, 1910
  • Gerobrunettia Quate & Quate, 1967
  • Mormia Enderlein, 1935
Paramormiini Enderlein, 1937
  • Clogmia Enderlein, 1937
  • Eurygarka Quate, 1959
  • Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1974
  • Panimerus Eaton, 1913
  • Paramormia Enderlein, 1935
  • Peripsychoda Enderlein, 1935
  • Philosepedon Eaton, 1904
  • Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904
  • Threticus Eaton, 1904
  • Trichopsychoda Tonnoir, 1922
  • Vaillantodes Wagner, 2002
Pericomini Enderlein, 1935
  • Bazarella Vaillant, 1961
  • Berdeniella Vaillant, 1976
  • Boreoclytocerus Duckhouse, 1978
  • Breviscapus Quate, 1955
  • Clytocerus Haliday in Walker, 1856
  • Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937
  • Notiocharis Eaton, 1913
  • Pericoma Haliday, in Walker, 1856
  • Pneumia Enderlein, 1935
  • Saraiella Vaillant, 1981
  • Stupkaiella Vaillant, 1973
  • Szaboiella Vaillant, 1979
  • Thornburghiella Vaillant, 1982
  • Ulomyia Haliday, in Curtis, 1839
Psychodini Quate, 1959
  • Epacretron Quate, 1965
  • Psychoda Latreille, 1796
  • Tinearia Schellenberg, 1803

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