Abstract
These small flies have had a confused history. In 1886 Bigot described Rhabdopselaphus mus , a new genus and species from California, but mistakenly credited it with having three submarginal cells. Williston, in the supplemental notes to his last Manual of Diptera, having examined Bigot's type, announced that the fly has only two submarginals. Coquillett in a series of papers, 1892, 1894 and 1902, published five new species, locating them in the genus Geron , and these were removed by Cresson in 1915 to a new genus, Pseudogeron , which he was erecting for them and for eight new species from the Southwestern United States. A few months later Cresson announced the identity of capax , one of the species described by Coquillett in 1892, with Rhabdopselaphus mus , and the synonymy of Pseudogeron with Rhabdopselaphus .
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