''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 hindwing ...

in the family

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 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 the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Si ...

and

Oriental The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of '' Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the ...

realms. A single species is known from the Afrotropical realm. 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 north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on th ...

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

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