''Lyroneurus'' is a
genus
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of
flies
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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 includes 17 species distributed in the
Neotropical realm
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. It was formerly treated as a subgenus of ''
Diaphorus
''Diaphorus'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. ''Lyroneurus'' was formerly considered a subgenus, but is now either treated as a synonym of ''Chrysotus'' or treated as a distinct genus.
Species
*''Diaphorus abruptus'' Va ...
''; more recently ''Lyroneurus'' has been treated as a synonym of ''
Chrysotus'',
but Capellari & Amorim (2010) maintains it as a distinct genus noting that ''Chrysotus'' is possibly paraphyletic.
Species
The species below are named assuming ''Lyroneurus'' is treated as a separate genus:
*''
Lyroneurus adustus''
( Wiedemann, 1830) – Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina
*''
Lyroneurus annulatus''
( Macquart, 1842) – Mexico, Lesser Antilles, Brazil
*''
Lyroneurus apicalis''
Becker
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, 1922[ – Argentina, Paraguay
*'' Lyroneurus chalybaeus'' Röder, 1892] – Ecuador
*'' Lyroneurus coerulescens'' Loew, 1857 – Mexico, Suriname, Ecuador, Argentina
*''Lyroneurus curvispina
''Lyroneurus'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes 17 species distributed in the Neotropical realm. It was formerly treated as a subgenus of ''Diaphorus''; more recently ''Lyroneurus'' has been treated as a synonym ...
'' (Van Duzee, 1929) – Guatemala, Panama
*''Lyroneurus fratellus
''Lyroneurus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes 17 species distributed in the Neotropical realm. It was formerly treated as a subgenus of ''Diaphorus''; more recently ''Lyroneurus'' has been treated as a synonym of '' ...
'' Becker
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, 1922 – Colombia, Argentina
*'' Lyroneurus laetus'' Becker
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, 1922[ – Paraguay
*'']Lyroneurus luteoviridis
''Lyroneurus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes 17 species distributed in the Neotropical realm. It was formerly treated as a subgenus of ''Diaphorus''; more recently ''Lyroneurus'' has been treated as a synonym of '' ...
'' Parent
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, 1935 – Colombia
*'' Lyroneurus maculatus'' Parent, 1930 – Argentina
*'' Lyroneurus marginalis'' Becker
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, 1922[ – Peru, Bolivia
*'' Lyroneurus occultus'' ]Becker
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, 1922[ – Colombia
*'' Lyroneurus perplexus'' (Van Duzee, 1929)] – Panama
*'' Lyroneurus praestans'' Parent
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, 1931 – Peru
*'' Lyroneurus simplex'' Aldrich, 1896 – Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil
*'' Lyroneurus suavis'' Loew, 1857 – Costa Rica, Panama, Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia, Argentina
*'' Lyroneurus willistoni'' (Van Duzee, 1931) – ?Brazil
References
Dolichopodidae genera
Diaphorinae
Taxa named by Hermann Loew
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