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Sciomyzoidea genera

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Coremacera
Coremacera is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Tetanocera
Tetanocera is a genus of marsh flies, insects in the family Sciomyzidae. There are at least 50 described species in Tetanocera.
Chaetocoelopa
Chaetocoelopa is a genus of kelp flies in the family Coelopidae.
Hydromya
Hydromya dorsalis is a species of fly in the family Sciomyzidae. It is found in the Palearctic. It is the only species in the genus Hydromya. Males have two elongated processes on the anterior margin of the fourth abdominal sternite. Larvae of Hydromya dorsalis are adapted for aquatic life and prey on aquatic pulmonate snails: Galba truncatula, Lymnaea sp. and Stagnicola palustris. Because of this, they are commonly referred to as snail-killing flies. Adults are found on vegetation all year round but the main flight period is April to October. H. dorsalis is known from most of the Palaearctic
Sepedon
Sepedon is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Dictya
Dictya is a genus of marsh flies in the family Sciomyzidae. There are at least 20 described species in Dictya.
Ilione
genus of insects
Elgiva
genus of insects
Sciomyza
Sciomyza is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Limnia
genus of flies
Icaridion
Icaridion is a genus of kelp fly in the family Coelopidae.
Pherbellia
Pherbellia is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. They occur throughout the world, except for the Subantarctic region.
Dryomyza
Dryomyza is a genus of flies from the family Dryomyzidae. There are 11 known species of which 2 are fossils.
Paractora
Paractora is a genus of flies in the family Helcomyzidae.
Sepedonella
Sepedonella is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Coelopa
Coelopa is a genus of kelp flies in the family Coelopidae. There are about 14 described species in Coelopa.
Pherbina
Pherbina is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Dictyacium
Dictyacium is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae. There are at least two described species in Dictyacium.
Sepedomerus
Sepedomerus is a genus of marsh flies (insects in the family Sciomyzidae). There are at least four described species in Sepedomerus.
Hoplodictya
Hoplodictya is a genus of marsh flies in the family Sciomyzidae. There are about five described species in Hoplodictya.
Pteromicra
Pteromicra is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Dichetophora
Dichetophora is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Neolimnia
Neolimnia is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Heterocheila
Heterocheila is a genus of acalyptrate true flies (Diptera). They are placed in their own family, Heterocheilidae, in the superfamily Sciomyzoidea. They are not widely familiar outside entomological circles, but the common name "half-bridge flies" has been associated with them. They are medium-sized flies occurring mainly in temperate regions on seashores of the Northern Hemisphere, where they and their larvae typically feed on stranded kelp in the wrack zone. In this, they resemble kelp flies, which are members of a different family, though the same superfamily.
Anticheta
Anticheta is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Xenosciomyza
Xenosciomyza is a genus of flies belonging to the family Helosciomyzidae. The genus was first described by André Léon Tonnoir and John Russell Malloch in 1928.
Tetanura
Tetanura is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Oedoparena
Oedoparena is a small genus of flies from the family Dryomyzidae. They are the only known dipterous predator of marine barnacles. There are only three known species.
Renocera
Renocera is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae. There are about eight described species in Renocera.
Gluma
genus of insects
Colobaea
Colobaea is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Psacadina
Psacadina is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.
Euthycera
thumb|Euthycera arcuata Euthycera is a genus of flies in the family Sciomyzidae, the marsh flies or snail-killing flies.