''Sybistroma'' 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 includes over 50 species, described mainly from the

Palaearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

and

Oriental The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term ''Occident'', which refers to the Western world. In English, it is largely a meto ...

realms. A single species is known from the

Afrotropical realm The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...

. Until 2005, the genus was thought to be restricted to the

Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern ...

in distribution, with five known species. It was recently expanded to include the former genera ''Hypophyllus'', ''Ludovicius'' and ''Nodicornis'', as well as some species of ''

Hercostomus ''Hercostomus'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is a large genus, containing more than 483 species worldwide. Multiple studies have shown that ''Hercostomus'' is a polyphyly, polyphyletic assemblage of species. Species ...

''.

Species

The following species are included in the genus:

Notes

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q7659543, from2=Q5960012, from3=Q6698981 Dolichopodidae genera Dolichopodinae Diptera of Asia Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen