Psychoda Latreille, 1796: 152. Type species: Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758, subsequent monotypy. Additional references: Quate (1955, diagnosis, North American species), Quate (1959a, redefined), Duckhouse (1966, redefined), Vaillant (1972, split in two genera), Ježek (1984, redefined, genus split in 12 genera), Duckhouse (1985), Duckhouse & Lewis (1989, genus divided in six genera), Wagner (1991, Palaearctic catalogue, genus split in two genera), Ibáñez-Bernal (1992, 1993), Ježek & van Harten (1996, additional genus), Quate (1996, keyed), Quate (2000), Ježek & van Harten (2005), Bravo et al. (2006b, historical analysis, previous proposed genera of authors considered subgenera), Ježek (2007), Cordeiro & Bravo (2008), Bravo et al. (2010), Cordeiro et al. (2011, taxonomy), Kvifte (2012, Afrotropical catalogue), Salmela et al. (2012).
Syn. Trichoptera Meigen, 1803. Type species: Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 (subsequent designation of Coquillett 1910).