''Scotiomyia'' is a genus of

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

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 distributed in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Species

* '' Scotiomyia flavicauda'' Wei & Yang, 2007 – China * '' Scotiomyia fusca'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997 – Papua New Guinea * '' Scotiomyia melanura'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997 – Papua New Guinea * '' Scotiomyia opercula'' (Wei, 2006) – China * '' Scotiomyia singaporensis'' Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002 – Singapore

References

Dolichopodidae genera Sympycninae Diptera of Australasia Diptera of Asia {{Dolichopodidae-stub