Insects in this subfamily are distinguished from other Tabanidae by possession of ocelli and the antennal flagellum usually has eight rings.[4]
The following listing of genera and tribes is based on Josef Moucha's Synoptic Catalogue,[2] with tribe Scionini revised as in Lessard (2014) with the creation of two new tribes, Goniopsini and Mycteromyiini.[3]
Stone, A. (1953). "New tabanid flies of the tribe Merycomyiini". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 43. The Washington Academy of Sciences: 255–258. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
Mackerras, I.M. (1955). "The classification and distribution of Tabanidae (Diptera). II. History. Morphology. Classification. Subfamily. Pangoniinae". Australian Journal of Zoology. 3: 439–511. doi:10.1071/ZO9550439.
Murdoch, W.P.; Takahasi, H. (1961). "Descriptions of a new genus and six new species of Tabanidae from Japan". Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology. 12: 111–116.
Latreille, P.A. (1802). Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, des crustaces et des insectes. Tome troisieme. Paris: Dufart. pp.xii + 13–467 + 1 pp.
Philip, C.B. (1954). "New North American Tabanidae. VIII. Notes on and keys to the genera and species of Pangoniinae exclusive of Chrysops". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 2: 13–60.
Lessard, B.D.; Yeates, D.K. (2012). "Anzomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae: Scionini): A new genus of Australian and New Zealand horse fly, including the description of three new species". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 43 (2): 101–116. doi:10.1163/187631212X637526.
Schiner, I.R. (1868). "Zweiter Bericht über die von der Weltumseglungsreise der k. Fregatte Novara mitgebrachten Dipteren". Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien. 17 [1867]: 303–314.
Walker, F. (1850). Diptera. Part I, pp. 1-76, pls. 1-2. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1. London: Van Voorst. p.474.
Giglio-Tos, E. (1896). "Un nuove genere di tabanidi raccolto nel Darien del dott". E. Festa. Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. R. Univ. Torino. 11 (224): 5.