Nemestrinidae

Overview of genera

Atriadops – Ceyloniola – Cyclopsidea – Fallenia – Hirmobequaertia – Hirmoia – Hirmoneura – Hirmoneuropsis – Hirmoneurota – Hyrmophlaeba – Indohirmoneura – Moegistorhynchus – Nemestrinus – Neohirmoneura – Neorhynchocephalus – Nycterimorpha – Nycterimyia – Parahirmoneura – Prosoeca – Stenobasipteron – Stenopteromyia – Trichophthalma – Trichopsidea – †Aenigmestrinus – †Archinemestrius – †Palembolus – †Prohirmoneura – †Protonemestrius
[Source: Bernardi (1973, 1976, 1977); Mostovski (1998); Papavero & Bernardi (2009b)]

Check: †Sinonemestrius

Synonymy

• Nemestrinae Griffith & Pidgeon, 1832: 754
• Nemestrinidae: Macquart, 1834: 370

Primary references

• Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. 1832. The class Insecta arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order. And notices of new genera and species by George Gray, Esq. Volume the second. In: Griffith, E. et al. (eds.) The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order, by Edward Griffith, and others. Volume the fifteenth. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London. 796 pp. BHL.
• Macquart, J. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Diptères I. In Roret, N.E. (ed). Nouvelles suites à Buffon, formant, avec les œuvres de cet auteur, un cours complet d’histoire naturelle. Collection accompagnée de planches. Paris, 578 pp. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Barraclough, D.A. 2006. An overview of the South African tangle­veined flies (Diptera: Nemestrinidae), with an annotated key to the genera and a checklist of species. Zootaxa 1277: 39–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1277.1.4 . Plazi.
• Barraclough, D.A., Colville, J.F., Karolyi, F. & Krenn, H.W. 2018. A striking new species of Prosoeca Schiner, 1867 (Diptera: Nemestrinidae): An important pollinator from the Bokkeveld Plateau, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Zootaxa 4497(3): 411–421. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.3.5 Reference page. 
• Bernardi, N. 1973. The genera of the family Nemestrinidae (Diptera: Brachycera). Arquivos de Zoologia 24(4): 211–318. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2176-7793.v24i4p211-318 .
• Bernardi, N. 1976. Classificação da subfamilia Hirmoneurinae (Diptera, Nemestrinidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 30(2): 25–33. PDF.
• Bernardi, N. 1977. A tribo Hyrmophlaebini (Diptera, Nemestridae, Hirmoneurinae), com treze espécies novas da América do Sul. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 30(16): 239–259. PDF.
• El-Hashash, A.E., Badrawy, H.B.M. & Ibrahim, A.M-E. 2021. A review of tangle-veined flies (Nemestrinidae, Diptera) in Egypt. ZooKeys 1071ː 11–42. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.70743 Reference page. 
• Kosmann, C. & Lamas, C.J.E. 2016. FAMILY NEMESTRINIDAE. In Wolff, M.I., Nihei, S.S. & Carvalho, C.J.B. de (eds.), Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa 4122(1): 350–352. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.29. Reference page. 
• Morita, S.I. 2011: Repeatability and precision in proboscis length measurements for long proboscid flies. Zootaxa, 3112: 49–58. Preview
• Mostovski, M.B. 1998. [Revision of the tangle-vein flies (Diptera, Nemestrinidae) described by B.B. Rohdendorf, and new taxa of nemestrinids from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 4: 47–53. (in Russian) [English translation: Paleontological Journal 32(4): 369–375. PDF.]
• Mostovski, M.B. & Martínez-Delclòs, X. 2000. New Nemestrinoidea (Diptera: Brachycera) from the Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous of Eurasia, taxonomy and palaeobiology. Entomological Problems 31(2): 137–148. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Papavero, N. & Bernardi, N. 2009. Catalogue of Neotropical Diptera. Nemestrinidae. Neotropical Diptera 7: 1–16. PDF. Reference page. 
• Papavero, N. & Bernardi, N. 2009. Manual of Neotropical Diptera. Nemestrinidae. Neotropical Diptera 8: 1–11. PDF. Reference page. 
• Zhang, J-F. 2017. On the enigmatic Sinonemestrius Hong & Wang, 1990, with description of a new species based on a complete fossil fly (Diptera, Brachycera, Tabanomorpha, Heterostomidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64(1): 61–67. DOI: 10.3897/dez.64.11724. Reference page.  [Sinonemestrius transferred to Heterostomidae: Sinonemestriinae]