Dolichopus

Dolichopus
Dolichopus urbanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Dolichopodinae
Tribe: Dolichopodini
Genus: Dolichopus
Latreille, 1796
Type species
Musca ungulata
Synonyms

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. It is the largest genus of Dolichopodidae with more than 600 species worldwide.

The name of the genus (δολιχός, long, and ποὺς, foot) refers to the length of the feet of its species.

Species groups and subgenera

The following species groups exist in Dolichopus:

Sometimes the following are considered subgenera of Dolichopus:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott Edward; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 283. American Museum of Natural History: 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:cotddo>2.0.co;2. hdl:2246/451.
  2. ↑ D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1978). Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Orthorrhapha, Brachycera) (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/5) (PDF). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 90 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
  4. ↑ "Genus Dolichopus". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  5. ↑ Barkalov, Anatolii V.; Negrobov, Oleg P.; Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2009). "The Dolichopus latipennis species group (=Hygroceleuthus Loew) in the Palearctic Region (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2087. Magnolia Press: 37–45. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2087.1.2. ISSN 1175-5326.
  6. ↑ Negrobov, O.P.; Selivanova, O.V.; Maslova, O.O. (2012). "New data on the taxonomy of the group Dolichopus lonchophorus Loew, 1873 (Dolichopodidae: Diptera)" (PDF). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 8 (1): 175–180. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2012-8-1-175-180. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-29. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  7. ↑ Negrobov, O.P.; Selivanova, O.V.; Maslova, O.O. (2014). "New data on the systematics of the Palaearctic species of the Dolichopus longisetus Negrobov, 1977 group (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Review. 94 (6): 914–919. doi:10.1134/S0013873814060104. S2CID 38651134.
  8. ↑ Barkalov, Anatolii V.; Negrobov, Oleg P.; Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2009). "The Dolichopus planitarsis species group in the Palearctic Region with the description of a new species from the Russian Altai (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2268. Magnolia Press: 59–64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2268.1.5. ISSN 1175-5326.
  9. ↑ Khaghaninia, Samad; Gharajedaghi, Yaser; Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2014). "The Dolichopus plumipes species group (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) in the Palaearctic Region with the description of a new species from Iran". Journal of Insect Biodiversity. 2 (1): 1–9. doi:10.12976/jib/2014.2.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
  10. ↑ Negrobov, O.P.; Selivanova, O.V.; Maslova, O.O. (2013). "Review of Palaearctic species of the Dolichopus sagittarius group Loew, 1848 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with description of a new species from Kazakhstan". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 9 (1): 187–190. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2013-9-1-187-190.
  11. ↑ Maslova, O.O.; Negrobov, O.P.; Selivanova, O.V. (2011). "The review of species of group Dolichopus salictorum Loew, 1871 (Dolichopodidae: Diptera)". Caucasian Entomological Bulletin (in Russian). 7 (1): 103–108. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2011-7-1-103-108.
  12. ↑ Selivanova, O. V.; Negrobov, O. P.; Barkalov, A. V. (2012). "New data on the systematics of the palaearctic species of the Dolichopus signifier group (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Review. 92 (4): 440–446. doi:10.1134/S0013873812040094. S2CID 21837222.
  13. ↑ Maslova, O.O.; Negrobov, O.P.; Selivanova, O.V. (2012). "New data on the systematics of the species of the Dolichopus sublimbatus Becker group (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Review. 93 (2): 243–248. doi:10.1134/S0013873813020139. S2CID 25830616.
  14. ↑ Zhang, Lili; Yang, Ding; Grootaert, Patrick (2004). "Revision of the Dolichopus tewoensis group (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from China". Biologia, Bratislava. 59 (5): 553–557. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.489.8384. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)
  15. ↑ Negrobov, O.P. (1991). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Soós, A.; Papp, L. (eds.). Dolichopodidae–Platypezidae. Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 7. Elsevier. pp. 11–136. ISBN 9780444599940.