NOMEN: Nemocera Latreille 1817: 594 [P.A. Latreille. Les crustacés, les arachnides, les insectes. – In: G. Cuvier. Le règne animal. – Paris, Deterville, 1817, T.3: 1-653]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Latreille 1817): Nemoceres (in French)
SUBSEQUENT SPELLING (Latreille 1825): Nemocera (in Latin) and Nemoceres (in French)
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Latreille 1817):
Culex + Tipula 
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Polyarta Billberg 1820
= Nematocera Berthold 1827 (non Dumeril 1806)
= Polymera Burmeister 1829 (non Jaekel 1909)
= Nemocerae Gray 1832
= Nemocerata Perty 1833
= Nemoceri Rondani 1843
= Nematocerata Gravenhorst 1843
= Nemoceridi Targioni Tozzetti 1870
= Nemoceratae Bigot 1888
= Nematoceratae Bigot 1892
= Prodiptera Crampton 1916
= Nematocerina Pearce 1936
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Tipula/fg (incl. Culex)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Tipulariae, Tipularia, Tipulina
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted plesiomorphon.
Systematic position of
Nemocera:
| Diptera plesiomorphon Nemocera Brachocera plesiomorphon Mesodiptera Cyclorapha |