Dolichopodinae


Dolichopodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is recognised by the antennae having setae on the top side of the scape, the femora of the middle and hind legs having setae on the front side near the apex, and the male postabdomen usually being large, forming a peduncle and folded underneath the abdomen.

Systematics

The subfamily Dolichopodinae is divided into two tribes, Dolichopodini and Tachytrechini, in Negrobov. In Brooks 's phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily, these tribes are not supported, and four informal generic groups are instead recognised.
The following list of genera generally follows Grichanov :
Several extinct genera were described from Eocene amber near Fushun, China by in 2002, but all except Leptodolichopodites and Fushuniregis are considered unavailable names because no type repositories were specified for any of the new species described in Hong's work:
  • †Arpactodolichopodites Hong, 2002
  • *†A. eocenicus Hong, 2002
  • †Convexivertex Hong, 2002
  • *†C. viridulus Hong, 2002
  • †Eoeuryopterites Hong, 2002
  • *†E. floricopulatus Hong, 2002
  • *†E. fushunensis Hong, 2002
  • †Fushuniregis Evenhuis in Evenhuis & Bickel, 2021
  • *†F. trichopoda
  • †Leptodolichopodites Hong, 2002
  • *†L. longiflagellatus
  • †Orbicapitis Hong, 2002
  • *†O. borealis Hong, 2002