Tanypeza Fallén 1820: 4. Type species, Tanypeza longimana Fallén, by monotypy. Zetterstedt 1847: 2421 [Sweden]; Rondani 1850: 181 [description of species now placed in Neotanypeza], 1856: 115 [Italy], 1874: 169 [diagnosis]; Bigot 1886 a: 299 [key]; Giglio-tos 1895: 61 [Mexico]; Williston 1896: 371 [St. Vincent (lists T. claripennis, now considered Neotanypeza); as Micropezidae], 1908: 264 [Manual of North American Diptera, as Tanypezidae, illustration of wing of Tanypeza sp.]; Hendel 1903: 201 [systematics]; 1910: 308 [as Cordylurinae]; Enderlein 1913: 224 [key, list of species], 1936: 41 [key, family revision]; Knab & Shannon 1916: 33 [United States of America]; Johnson 1925: 265 [New England, as Micropezidae]; Curran 1934: 301 [manual, North America, illustrations of head and wing]; Hennig 1936: 27 [male genitalia, relationships], 1937: 1 [manual, Palaearctic], 1973: 53 [handbook of zoology]; Griffiths 1972: 132 [phylogenetics, male terminalia]; Soós 1984: 27 [catalogue, Palaearctic]; Steyskal 1965 a: 641 [catalogue, America north of Mexico], 1987: 774 [key, manual, Nearctic]; D.K. McAlpine 1997 b: 176 [morphology, relationships]; Roháček 1998: 165 [manual, Palaearctic]; Krivosheina 1999: 506 [key, Russian Far East]; Sabrosky 1999: 299 [citation]; Schumann et al. 1999: 215 [checklist, Germany]; Barber 2006: 100 [Manitoba]; Apigian & Thompson 2010: 827 [key]. Lonsdale 2013: 2 [definition, phylogeny].
Volusia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 674. Type species, Volusia nitida Robineau-Desvoidy, by monotypy. Becker 1902: 21 [as genus incertae in Scatomyzidae (= Scathophagidae)]; Hendel 1910: 308 [as synonym of Tanypeza]; Schulze 1940: 3645 [as “Acalypt. Ortalid”]; Evenhuis et al. 2010: 162 [nomenclatural study of genus-group names].
Tenypeza. Misspelling. Griffith & Pidgeon 1832: 713.
Tanipeza. Misspelling. Rondani 1850: 181; Sabrosky 1999: 299 [citation]; O’Hara et al. 2011: 174 [as synonym of Tanypeza].
longimana Fallén. NE: Alberta and Montana to Maine, Illinois and Georgia; PA: eastern Russia to northern,
central and western Europe, Italy, not including subarctic regions.
Tanypeza longimana Fallén 1820: 5 Sweden. Skåne: Esperöd; Östergötland [=Ostrogothia]: Lärketorp. ST?♂?♀ NHRS. Zetterstedt 1847: 2422 [Sweden]; Hendel 1903: 203 [discussion of family]; Johnson 1910: 234 [Illinois, New York]; Hennig 1936: 37 [family treatment, illustration of male genitalia], 1937: 1 [illustrations of wing, hind basotarsomere and male and female external terminalia, manual, Palaearctic]; Steyskal 1965 a: 641 [catalogue of America north of Mexico, T. longimana not considered to occur in Nearctic], 1965 b: 201 [key, synonymization of luteipennis], 1987: 774 [illustrations of habitus, female abdomen, male abdomen, male genitalia, and male hind trochanter and femoral base, manual, Nearctic]; Cole & Schlinger 1969: 342 [not considered Nearctic, manual of western North American flies]; Stackelberg 1988: 168 [checklist, European USSR]; Foote 1970: 235 [larval description and illustration, derived from female swept from Lysichitum americanum Hultén & St. John, reared to 3 rd instar on watermelon rind and pulp, Montana]; Chandler 1975: 67 [diagnosis, behaviour, illustration, distribution map, Britain]; Soós 1984: 26 [catalogue, Palaearctic]; Ferrar 1987: 385 [immature stages, illustrations of larva]; Martinek 1987: 171 [Czech Republic]; Gosseries 1991: 120 [checklist, Belgium]; Bächli 1998: 236 [checklist, Switzerland]; Roháček 1986: 125 [Slovakia], 1997: 67 [checklist, Czech and Slovak republics], 1998: 165 [illustrations of habitus (after Steyskal (1987)), male and female abdomen and internal genitalia, larva (numerous views), manual, Palaearctic], 1999: 231 [Czech Republic], 2005: 309 [listed as IUCN Red List threatened species]; Krivosheina 1999: 507 [key, Russian Far East, illustration of head, wing, male genitalia]; Schumann et al. 1999: 215 [checklist, Germany]; Papp 2001: 269 [Hungary, checklist]; Beuk & Van der Goot 2002: 222 [checklist, Netherlands]; Barták & Kubík 2005: 237 [checklist, Czech Republic]; Carles-Tolrá 2002: 192 [checklist, Andorra, not present in Portugal or Spain]; Oosterbroek 2006: 166 [diagnosis, biology of immatures]; Tschirnhaus 2008: 89 [Italian Alps, photo of female habitus]; Lonsdale 2013: 2 [photo of habitus, wing and egg, illustrations of habitus, male genitalia, female genitalia].
Volusia nitida Robineau-Desvoidy 1830: 181. France. Burgundy: Yonne Department, Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. ST? [location unknown, not in Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris]; Hendel 1910: [implicit synonym of longimana]; Evenhuis et al. 2010: 162 [citation].
Tanipeza longimana. Misspelling. Rondani 1856: 115 [Italy].
Tanypeza luteipennis Knab & Shannon 1916: 34. USA. Illinois: Algonquin; New Hampshire: Franconia; New York: Oswego. ST 2 ♂ 4 ♀ USNM [Cat. No. 20188]. Johnson 1925: 265 [Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, includes longimana as synonym]; Johannsen 1928: 854 [New York]; Hennig 1936: 37 [as doubtful member of Neotanypeza]; Steyskal 1965 a: 641 [catalogue of America north of Mexico], 1965 b: 201 [as synonym of longimana]; Cole & Schlinger 1969: 342 [Alberta, manual of western North American flies]; Griffiths 1972: 133 [phylogenetics, male terminalia, illustration of external male genitalia].
picticornis Knab & Shannon. NE: United States of America (Maryland, Michigan, New York, Virginia). Tanypeza picticornis Knab & Shannon 1916: 35. USA. Maryland, near Plummer’s Island; Virginia, Great Falls. ST 2 ♂ USNM [Cat. No. 20189]. Johannsen 1928: 854 [New York]; Hennig 1936: 37 [family treatment]; Steyskal 1965 a: 641 [catalogue, America north of Mexico, New York], 1965 b: 201 [key]; Lonsdale 2013: 45 [illustration of male abdomen].