# = male, $ = female
Ophthalmomyia Williston, 1896: 426. Type-species: Lobioptera lacteipennis Loew, 1866: 185 [mon.]. Hendel 1910: 313 [syn. with Milichiella acc. to Hendel 19??]. Cole 1969: 390 [syn. with Milichiella].
Opthalmomyia. Misspelling. Hunter 1914: 27.
Stenoporomyia Hendel, 1903: 250. Type-species: Lobioptera tiefii Mik, 1887: 178 [orig. des.]. Syn. Becker 1907b: 531.
Eccoptomma Becker, 1907b: 540. Type-species: frontale Becker, 1907b: 542 [des. Malloch 1934: 463]. Hennig 1937: 28 [genus diagnosis]. Syn. Sabrosky 1980: 688.
Pareccoptomma Duda, 1935b: 25 [as subgenus of Milichia]. Type-species: Milichia nigeriae Duda, 1935b: 26 [orig. des.]. Syn. Sabrosky 1980: 688.
Milichiela. Misspelling. Illingworth 1928: 45.
Millichiella. Misspelling. Becker 1908c: 203.
Eccoptoma. Misspelling. Serra 2002: 1.
aberrata Becker. NT: Bolivia, Peru.
Milichiella aberrata Becker, 1907b: 538. Bolivia. Sorata, 2300 m; Peru. Rosalina, Rio
acrosticalis (Sabrosky). AF:
Eccoptomma acrosticalis Sabrosky, 1958b: 2.
Milichiella acrosticalis. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [combination, Afrotropical catalog]; pers. note [synonym to nigeriae Duda].
archaia Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
?Milichia cf. ludens. Brake 2000a: 79.
Milichiella archaia Brake, 2006: 19.
arcuata (Loew). NE:
Lobioptera arcuata Loew, 1876: 339.
Milichia arcuata. Aldrich 1905: 651 [catalog,
Milichiella arcuata. Johnson 1913: 89 [Florida], 1925: 287 [Massachusetts], 1930: 157 [Massachusetts]; Malloch 1913a: 132 [District of Columbia, Maryland, Canada]; Curran 1928: 68 [Puerto Rico]; Leonard 1928: 864 [New York]; Johannsen 1928: 864 [New York]; Procter 1927: 225 [Maine], 1938: 348 [citation], 1946: 403 [citation]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [checklist, Puerto Rico]; Brimley 1938: 389 [checklist, North Carolina]; Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog]; Cole 1969: 390 [Arizona]; Frost 1969: 99 [light traps, Florida]; Aldrich & Barros 1995 [212-214] [chemical attraction to [E]-2-Hexenal]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist]; MCZ type database 2005 [type information, photos]
argentea (Fabricius). OR:
Tephritis argentea Fabricius, 1805: 323.
Lobioptera argentea. Mik 1887: 8[180] [Chlorops argenteus Wied. [Tephritis argentea Fabr.], probably belonging to Lobioptera].
Milichiella argentea. Becker 1907b: 511, 536 [type information; discussion of different determined specimens and of synonymy, probably syn. with M. melaleuca; diagnosis]; Bezzi 1908: 193 [
argenteocincta Johnson. NT: West Indies [
Milichiella argenteocincta Johnson, 1919: 449.
Pholeomyia argenteocincta. Gowdey 1926: 89 [checklist,
argentiventris Hendel. AF: ?Cape Verde Is., Egypt, ?Israel, Nigeria, Oman, Sudan, Yemen.
Milichiella argentiventris Hendel, 1931: 72. Egypt. Wadi Kanssisrob, Gebel Elba. ST 3# CUGE?. Hennig 1937: 26 [citation]; Frey 1958: 50 [Cape Verde Is.]; Steyskal 1966: 123 [type information, Egypt]; Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog]; Papp 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Deeming 1998: 154 [fig. of costal break, swarming, reared from rotten yam tubers, Nigeria, Niger State, Oman, Yemen].
Milichiella argentiventria. Misspelling. Steyskal & El-Bialy 1967: 34 [checklist,
argyrogaster (Perris). PA:
Milichia argyrogaster Perris, 1876: 208.
Milichiella argrogastra. Becker 1907b: 534 [diagnosis]; Seguy 1934b: 636 [fig. of eye, Algeria].
Milichiella argyrogaster. Hennig 1937: 26 [diagnosis, larvae in decaying wood, males flying in hot sunny weather near cut old Populus logs and females running on these, Russia; Austria]; Stackelberg 1958: 186 [Russia: North European territory]; Papp 1978c: 17 [Hungary], 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Gregor 1986: 184 [catalog, Slovakia], 1987: 262 [checklist, Slovakia]; Ferrar 1987: 223 [citation]; Rohá?ek & Gregor 1984: 17 [Slovakia]; Rohá?ek 1995: [biology, development, description of egg, larva and puparium]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Spain].
Milichiella argylogaster. Misspelling. Iwasa 1999: 30 [figs of male genitalia, sternites and photo of male dorsal habitus,
Milichiella argyropasta. Misspelling. Aldrich, 1931: 398 [].
Lobioptera tiefii Mik, 1887: 178. Austria. Kärnten: Villach. ST 3# ?. Mik 1887: 178 [on and swarming near stack of logs of old beech branches].
Stenoporomyia tiefii. Becker 1905: 238 [Palaearctic catalog].
Lobioptera tiefi. Misspelling. Becker 1907b: 511 [syn. to M. argyrogastra].
Milichiella tiefi. Misspelling. Becker, 1905: 237; Aldrich, 1931: 398.
bakeri Aldrich. OR:
Milichiella bakeri Aldrich, 1931: 398.
bimaculata Becker. PA: Canary Is.
Milichiella bimaculata Becker, 1907b: 534.
Milichiella bimaculata Becker, 1908: 163.
bisignata Melander. NE:
Milichiella bisignata Melander, 1913a: 239.
Milichiella bisignata Johnson 1910a: 813 [name attributed to Coquillett]. Nomen nudum. Melander, 1913a: 240 [nomen nudum].
Milichiella bisbignota. Misspelling. Brimley 1967: 101 [checklist,
cinerea (Coquillett). NT:
Ophthalmomyia cinerea Coquillett, 1900: 268.
Ophthalmomyia cineria. Mispelling. Wolcott 1923: 234 [citation].
Milichiella cinerea. Becker 1907b: 535 [diagnosis]; Malloch 1913a: 132 [description of male, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]; Melander 1913a: 239 []; Curran 1928: 68 [citation]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [checklist, Puerto Rico]; Steyskal 1949: 131 [acc. to Sabrosky type consist of only a piece of thorax and a leg buried in glue]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog].
cingulata Becker. NT: Peru.
Milichiella cingulata Becker, 1907b: 538.
circularis Aldrich. AU: Hawaii.
Milichiella circularis Aldrich, 1931: 397.
Milichia circularis. Williams 1931: 308 [
circularis Illingworth, 1929: 234 [Nomen nudum]. [swarming near rubbish dump,
concava (Becker). NT:
Eccoptomma concavum Becker, 1907b: 541.
dimidiata (Wiedemann). NT:
Chlorops dimidiata Wiedemann, 1830: 597.
Chlorops dimidiatus. Mik 1887: 8[180] [probably belonging to Lobioptera].
Milichiella dimidiata. Becker 1907b: 538 [diagnosis, type information]; Sabrosky 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog, “unrecognized”].
dolichosurstyla Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
Milichiella dolichosurstyla Brake, 2006: 21.
dominicana Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
Milichiella sp. 5. Brake 2000a: 79.
Milichiella dominicana Brake, 2006: 21.
flavipalpis Hendel. NT: Argentina, Bolivia.
Milichiella flavipalpis Hendel, 1932: 142.
freyi (Hendel). PA: Canary Is.
Eccoptomma freyi Hendel, 1936: 125.
frontalis (Becker). NT:
Eccoptomma frontale Becker, 1907b: 542.
hendeli Brake. NE: California
Milichiella nitida Hendel, 1911: 39.
Milichiella hendeli Brake, 2000: 105. [n.n. for nitida Hendel, 1911].
hennigi Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
Milichiella hennigi Brake, 2006: 23.
iberica Carles-Tolrá. PA:
Milichiella iberica Carles-Tolrá, 2001: 521.
javana Meijere. OR:
Milichiella javana Meijere, 1911: 427.
lacteipennis (Loew). PA:
Lobioptera lacteipennis Loew, 1866: 185.
Ophthalmomyia lacteipennis. Williston 1896: 427 [on West Indies]; Coquillett 1900: 268 [Puerto Rico, District of Columbia to Florida, west to New Mexico, West Indies], 1908: 292 [fig. of wing]; Johnson 1904a: 80 [Bermuda Is.]; Aldrich 1905: 651 [catalog, North America]; Tucker 1906: 201 [Kansas], 1907: 107 [Kansas]; Wolcott 1923: 234 [Puerto Rico]; Hallock & Parker 1926: 20 [New Jersey]; Ogilvie 1928: 46 [checklist, Bermuda Is.].
Opthalmomyia lacteipennis. Hunter 1914: 27 [type information].
Opthalmomyia lobioptera. Error. Hunter 1914: 27. Pers. note [must be Lobioptera lacteipennis].
Milichiella lacteipennis. Becker 1907b: 533 [diagnosis], 1908: 162 [diagnosis, on flowers of Schinus mollis]; Johnson 1910a: 813 [New Jersey], 1913: 89 [Florida], 1914: 452 [Bermuda Is.], 1919: 449 [Jamaica], 1925: 287 [Massachusetts], 1930: 157 [Massachusetts]; Hendel 1913: 107 [Taiwan]; Malloch 1913a: 133 ["taken among aphids on cotton", Florida, District of Columbia, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, Alabama, California, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Brazil, Guam, Hawaii], 1914: 312 [Taiwan], 1924: 336 [Queensland], 1931: 77 [Australia], 1933: 3 [Marquesas Is.], 1934a: 464 [Chile], 1934b: 326 [bred from guinea-pig dung, Samoa]; Melander 1913a: 239 [Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico], 1952: 419 [compost, Hawaii]; Bezzi 1914: 281 + 308 [Angola], 1928: 162 [bred from manure heap, stable manure and rotten cow-pea seed, distribution, Fiji Islands]; Lamb 1914: 360 [Seychelles]; Tucker 1917: 300 [in oats-stubbs field, transported on squash bug, Texas]; Meijere 1918: 353 [citation]; Illingworth 1923: 271 [swarming about the tins of hen manure and bred out from the mass, Hawaii]; Bryan et al. 1926: 70 [Hawaii]; Curran 1928: 67 [Puerto Rico], 1931: 14 [Puerto Rico]; Johannsen 1928: 864 [New York]; Leonard 1928: 864 [New York]; Williams 1931: 307 [Hawaii]; Bryan 1934: 441 [about decaying vegetable matter and resting on green leaves, Hawaii], 1935: 145 [on plane from Midway Islands]; Felt & Chamberlain 1935: 60 [on top of fire tower, New York]; Swezey 1935: 11 [killed by balsa flower, Ochroma lagopus, Hawaii], 1946: 198 [Guam]; Frey 1936: 124 [on sand dunes, typical for dryest machia-like localities, swarming, Canary Islands], 1958a: 50 [mainly very dry localities on Cape Verde Is.], 1958b: 62 [Canary Islands]; Wolcott 1936: 391 [on eggplant and on Chalcas (Murraya) exotica, checklist, Puerto Rico]; Hennig 1937: 27 [short diagnosis, fig. of head, almost cosmopolitan], 1941: 176 [Taiwan]; Sakimura & Linford 1940: 453 [on rotting pineapples, Hawaii]; Zwaluwenburg 1943: 311 [Canton Island]; Beatty 1944: 154 [Puerto Rico]; Krauss 1944: 91 [Hawaii], 1945: 317 [Hawaii], 1963: 536 [attracted to Nezara viridula, Hawaii], 1964: 334 [citation]; Fullaway & Krauss 1945: 165 [on flowers of Nothopanax cochleatum, predated by Lispa metatarsalis, fig. of habitus, Hawaii]; Ortiz 1946: 142 [checklist, Chile]; Bohart & Gressitt 1951: 22-23, 28, 98-99 [bred from cattle droppings, heaps of cow and horse manure, and decaying aquatic vegetation; attracted to garbage dumps and human faeces; species, larvae, and puparium description; biology, very common on Guam]; Berry 1957: 59 [on rotten stem cabbage, San Salvador]; Sabrosky 1958b: 2 [Tanzania], Sabrosky 1965a: 733 [Nearctic catalog], 1973: 4 [Neotropical catalog], 1977: 273 [Oriental catalog], 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog], 1989: 557 [Australasian/Oceanian catalog]; Suehiro 1960: 297 [Midway Atoll]; Butler 1961: 385 [Hawaii]; Wilton 1961: 480 [reared from garbage can, Hawaii], 1963: 314 [on dog faeces, Hawaii]; Butler & Usinger 1963: 243 [Hawaii]; Beardsley 1966: 165 [Hawaii]; Sholdt 1966: 294 [on flowers of Cocos nucifera, Hawaii]; Steyskal 1966: 123 [Egypt]; Steyskal & El-Bialy 1967: 34 [checklist, Egypt]; Cole 1969: 390 [California, Oregon]; Legner 1969: [attracted to rotten egg baits, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Argentina, California]; Greenberg 1971: 216 [citation, prey of Dermaptera: Labiduridae and Labiidae, Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae and Staphylinidae, Hymenoptera: Formicidae]; Lindner 1973/74: 77 [Namibia]; Papp 1979: 105 [Afghanistan], 1984a: 113 [Palaearctic catalog]; Hardy & Delfinado 1980: 364 [figs of male terminalia, Hawaii]; Lopez 1984: 3 [kleptoparasitic on Nephila inaurata with pentatomid bug, Seychelles]; Deeming & Báez 1985: 65 [seemingly feeding on secretions of Odius nymph [Pentatomidae], Canary Islands, Nigeria]; Early & Goff 1986: 521 [on cat carcass, Hawaii]; Ferrar 1987: 223 [citation]; Landau & Gaylor 1987: [kleptoparasitic on spider with bug, Alabama]; Nishida 1992: 111 [Hawaii]; Poole 1996: 179 [Nearctic checklist]; Deeming 1998: 154 [swarming, on sweet potato, cow dung, Oman]; Kami & Miller 1998: 33 [checklist, Samoa]; Woodruff et al 1998: 69 [checklist, Grenada]; Iwasa 1999: 29 [swarming around cattle houses, figs of male genitalia, sternites and photo of male dorsal habitus, Japan]; Brake 2000a: 12 [figs of head, male genitalia, spermathecal duct coil, Israel]; Carles-Tolrá & Báez 2002: 174 [catalog, Canary Is., Madeira].
Millichiella lacteipennis. Becker 1908c: 203 [
Milichiela lacteipennis. Illingworth 1928: 45 [in pineapple field,
Milichiella sp. prob. lacteipennis. Aldrich 1970: 349 [attracted to defensive secretion of bugs].
Milichia albohalterata Séguy, 1933: 50. Nomen nudum [
Milichiella nigrella Cole, 1912: 162.
Milichiella lactipennis. Misspelling. Cole & Lovett 1921: 342 [
Pholeomyia lactipennis. Misspelling. Gowdey 1926: 89 [checklist,
lacteiventris Malloch. AU:
Milichiella lacteiventris Malloch, 1931: 77.
longiseta Hardy & Delfinado. AU: Hawaiian Is.
Milichiella longiseta Hardy & Delfinado, 1980: 365.
lucidula Becker. NT:
Milichiella lucidula Becker, 1907b: 537. Peru. Callanga;
margaretae Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
Milichiella margaretae Brake, 2006: 24.
melaleuca (Loew). AF:
Argyrites melaleuca Loew, 1863: 16.
Argyrites melaleucus. Mik 1887: 8[180] [citation].
Milichiella melaleuca. Becker 1907b: 512, 536 [as a synonym of M. argentea Fabr.]. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].
Milichia melaleuca. Bezzi 1908: 193 [
Milichiella tosi Becker, 1907b: 536.
Milichiella argentea. Misidentification. Authors, not Fabricius [acc. Sabrosky 1980].
Eccoptomma montanum Becker, 1907b: 541.
nigeriae (Duda). AF: Nigeria.
Milichia (Pareccoptomma) nigeriae Duda, 1935b: 26. Nigeria. Gadau. ST 10# BMNH. Duda 1935b: 26 [swarming near Baobab].
Eccoptomma nigeriae. Sabrosky 1958b: 4 [combination].
Milichiella nigeriae. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [combination, Afrotropical catalog].
nigripes Malloch. AU:
Milichiella nigripes Malloch, 1931: 77.
nitida (
Gymnopa nitida
nudiventris Becker. NT:
Milichiella nudiventris Becker, 1907b: 537.
parva (Macquart). AF: Réunion.
Milichia parva Macquart, 1843: 426.
Milichiella parva. Becker 1907b: 535 [diagnosis]; Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].
pseudodectes (Seguy). AF:
Milichia pseudodectes Seguy, 1933: 50.
Milichiella pseudodectes. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [combination, Afrotropical catalog].
quadrisetosa Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
Milichiella quadrisetosa Brake, 2006: 25.
smithi Aldrich. OR:
Milichiella smithi Aldrich, 1931: 399.
solitaria (Lamb). AF:
Eccoptomma solitarium Lamb, 1914: 361.
Milichiella solitaria. Sabrosky 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].
spinthera Hendel. OR: Taiwan.
Milichiella spinthera Hendel, 1913: 107. Taiwan. Pilam. HT # DEI. Hennig 1941: 176 [Taiwan, type information]; Rohlfien & Ewald 1972: 444 [type information]; Morge 1976: 509 [figs of head, type habitus]; Sabrosky 1977: 274 [Oriental catalog].
Milichiella spinithera. Misspelling. Iwasa 1999: 30 [swarming atound cattle houses, fig of male genitalia, sternites and photo of male dorsal habitus,
sumptuosa Meijere. OR:
Milichiella sumptuosa Meijere, 1911: 426.
theodori Brake. NT: Dominican amber.
Milichiella theodori Brake, 2006: 25.
tricincta Becker. NT:
Milichiella tricincta Becker, 1907b: 540.
tristis Lamb. AF: Seychelles, Kenya.
Milichiella tristis Lamb, 1914: 360.
unicolor (Meijere). AF:
Milichia unicolor Meijere, 1906: 333.
Milichiella unicolor. Becker 1907b: 536 [diagnosis]; Meijere 1914: 254 [short description of female, Java], 1918: 353 [citation]; Sabrosky 1977: 274 [Oriental catalog], 1980: 688 [Afrotropical catalog].
Milichiella
Milichiella populi Steyskal, 1949: 130. USA. Michigan: Grosse Ile. HT # UMMZ. Steyskal 1949: 130 [on bark of trunk of dead Populus deltoides], 1952: 255 [on poplar], 1957: 92 [eye color]. Syn. Sabrosky 1965a: 733.
velutina Becker. NT:
Milichiella velutina Becker, 1907b: 539.
vidua Becker. NT: Peru.
Milichiella vidua Becker, 1907b: 539. Peru. Umahuankiali,
unnamed Milichiella species
sp. in Beavers et al. 1972: [attracted to 2,4-Hexadienyl hexanoate,
sp. in Everly 1940: 53 [on sweet corn,
sp. in Beatty 1944: 154 [
sp. in Denning et al. 1947: 25 [on aircraft].
sp. near argentea [Fab.] in Sabrosky 1958b: 2 [
sp. near solitaria Lamb in Sabrosky 1958b: 2 [
sp. in Maldonaldo Capriles & Navarro 1967: 56 [Milichiella in Wolcotts list of
sp. in Eisner et al. 1991: 8196 [attracted to trans-2-hexenal, kleptoparasitic on Nephila with heteropteran prey,
sp. in Ferrar 1987: 223 [reared from soil and manure in stockyards,
sp. in Ferrar 1987: 223 [reared from soil on rotting wood in
sp. in Legner 1969: [attracted to rotten egg baits, Trinidad and
sp. in Swezey 1926 is Milichiella circularis!
sp. near cinerea [Coq.] in Johnson 1913: 89 [Desmometopa tarsalis,
sp. in Sivinski 1985: 221 [kleptoparasitic on Nephila clavipes eating coreid bug].
spp. in Wolda & Sabrosky 1986: [visiting flowers of Aristolochia pilosa,
spp. in Deeming 1998: 155 [
sp. 1-4 in Brake 2000a: 12 [
spp. in Swann 2000: 266 [
Classification: Milichiella