''Filatopus'' is a genus of

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in the family

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 8,000 described species in about 250 genera. The genus '' Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species. Dolichopodidae generally a ...

. It is known from

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and

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. The genus was originally known as ''Nematopus'', named by

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in 1933. Later, David Miller found the name to be preoccupied by ''Nematopus'' (Berthold, 1827), and renamed it to ''Filatopus'' in 1945. However, as ''Nematopus'' was not designated a type species, the name ''Filatopus'' was unavailable until 1970, when Harold E. Robinson designated ''Nematopus ciliatus'' as the type species.

Species

* '' Filatopus ciliatus'' (

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, 1933) * '' Filatopus mirabilis'' (

, 1933) * '' Filatopus nigripalpis'' (Van Duzee, 1930) * '' Filatopus ornatus'' (

, 1933)

References

Sympycninae Dolichopodidae genera Diptera of New Zealand Diptera of South America Taxa named by Harold E. Robinson {{Dolichopodidae-stub