Dolichopus
Genus of flies
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Dolichopus is a large cosmopolitan genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Adults are small flies, typically less than 8 mm in length. Nearly all species are metallic greenish-blue to greenish-bronze.[2] It is the largest genus of Dolichopodidae with more than 600 species worldwide.[3]
| Dolichopus | |
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| Dolichopus urbanus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichopodinae |
| Tribe: | Dolichopodini |
| Genus: | Dolichopus Latreille, 1796 |
| Type species | |
| Musca ungulata | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The name of the genus (δολιχός, long, and ποὺς, foot) refers to the length of the feet of its species.[4]
Gallery
- Dolichopus sp. female with prey (video, 1m 23s)
Species groups and subgenera
The following species groups exist in Dolichopus:
- Dolichopus latipennis species group (= Hygroceleuthus Loew, 1857)[5]
- Dolichopus lonchophorus species group[6]
- Dolichopus longisetus species group[7]
- Dolichopus planitarsis species group (8 species)[8] – Palaearctic
- Dolichopus plumipes species group (11 species)[9] – Palaearctic
- Dolichopus sagittarius species group[10]
- Dolichopus salictorum species group[11]
- Dolichopus signifer species group[12]
- Dolichopus sublimbatus species group (4 species)[13]
- Dolichopus tewoensis species group (3 species)[14] – China
Sometimes the following are considered subgenera of Dolichopus:[15]
- Dolichopus Latreille, 1796
- Hygroceleuthus Loew, 1857 (= Dolichopus latipennis species group)
- Macrodolichopus Stackelberg, 1933