Abstract
The family Chloropidae currently comprises 202 genera, divided in four subfamilies. The most diverse subfamily is Oscinellinae, with 109 of the genera. Siphonellopsinae is the least diverse with only four genera, followed by Rhodesiellinae with 14 genera. The subfamily Chloropinae, focus of this research project, comprises 75 genera and 995 described species, distributed in all biogeograp…