^ abcdCresson, E. T., Jr. (1943). "The Species of the Tribe Ilytheini (Diptera: Ephydridae: Notiphilinae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 69: 1–16, 2 plates.
^Hollmann-Schirrmacher, V. (1998). "Phylogeny of the subfamily Ilytheinae (Diptera, Ephydridae) with special reference to the genus Philygria". Studia Dipterologica, Supplement. 5: 1–144.
^Mathis, W.N.; Zatwarnicki, T. (1995). "World catalog of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Memoirs of Entomology, International. 4: 1–423.
^ abcCurtis, J. (1837). A guide to an arrangement of British Insects: being a catalogue of all the named species hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland. Second Edition, Greatly enlarged. London: J. Pigot, Sherwood and Co. & Marshall. pp. vi pp. + 294.