Sympycninae is a subfamily 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 7,000 described species in about 230 genera. The genus ''Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species. Dolichopodidae generally a ...

Genera

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Anepsiomyia ''Anepsiomyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one extant species from Europe, '' A. flaviventris'', as well as two fossil species from the Eocene of Russia and Belarus. The genus was originally known as ''Ane ...

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, 1902 (Diaphorinae or Sympycninae) *''

Brevimyia ''Brevimyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, ''Brevimyia pulverea'', and is found in New Zealand. It was originally known as ''Brachymyia'', named by Octave Parent Abbé Octave Parent (15 June 18 ...

'' Miller, 1945 *'' Calyxochaetus'' Bigot, 1888 *''

Campsicnemus ''Campsicnemus'' is a genus of flies in family Dolichopodidae. There are more than 290 described species, made up of 34 Palearctic, 22 Nearctic, seven Afrotropic, 170 Australasian and Oceanian, and seven Indomalayan species. Some species endemic ...

'' Haliday in Walker, 1851 *''

Ceratopos ''Ceratopos'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Algeria and Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian ...

'' Vaillant, 1952 *''

Chaetogonopteron ''Chaetogonopteron'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Species * ''Chaetogonopteron acuticorne'' (Richard Karl Hjalmar Frey, Frey, 1928) * ''Chaetogonopteron aechmophorum'' (Meuffels & Grootaert, 1987) * ''Chaetogonopteron ...

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, 1913 *''

Colobocerus ''Colobocerus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and ...

'' Parent, 1933 *''

Erebomyia ''Erebomyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from the United States. Three species are known from Arizona, and one from California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the ...

'' Runyon & Hurley, 2004 *''

Filatopus ''Filatopus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from New Zealand and Argentina. The genus was originally known as ''Nematopus'', named by Octave Parent in 1933. Later, David Miller found the name to be preoccupied by ...

'' Robinson, 1970 *''

Hercostomoides ''Hercostomoides'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from Asia to Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. Species The genus contains seven species: * '' Hercostomoides baroalba'' Bickel, 2022 – Australia * '' Herco ...

'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997 *''

Humongochela ''Humongochela'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from three of the Marquesas Islands, with one species on each. All three species are found on vertical surfaces near waterfalls. Flies in the genus have extremely long ...

'' Evenhuis, 2004 *''

Hyptiocheta ''Hyptiocheta'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , ...

'' Becker, 1922 *''

Ischiochaetus ''Ischiochaetus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent in 1933. However, as the genus was not designated a type species, this name was unavailable until 1989, when ...

'' Bickel & Dyte, 1989 *''

Lamprochromus ''Lamprochromus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is generally placed in the subfamily Sympycninae, though a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the family Dolichopodidae by Germann ''et al.'' (2011) suggested that the genus ...

'' Mik, 1878 *''

Liparomyia ''Liparomyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Australia. Species * '' Liparomyia sedata'' White, 1916 – Tasmania * '' Liparomyia separata'' (Parent, 1932) – Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capi ...

'' White, 1916 *''

Micropygus ''Micropygus'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is native to New Zealand, though the species ''Micropygus vagans'' is also found in the British Isles as an introduced species. The genus was originally named by Octave Pare ...

'' Bickel & Dyte, 1989 *'' Negrobovus'' Wang, Evenhuis, Ji, Yang & Zhang, 2021 *''

Neoparentia ''Neoparentia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Species * ''Neoparentia bicolor'' ( Parent, 1954) * ''Neoparentia bisetosa'' Robinson, 1967 * ''Neoparentia caudata'' (Van Duzee, 1917) * ''Neoparentia deformis'' Robinson, 19 ...

'' Robinson, 1967 *''

Nothorhaphium ''Nothorhaphium'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Dolichopodidae. It includes four species from Australia and a single species from New Guinea. ''Nothorhaphium'' superficially resembles the genus ''Rhaphium'', but it belongs in the su ...

'' Bickel, 1999 *''

Nurteria ''Nurteria'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in the Afrotropical realm. Three species are currently known in the genus, but there are also numerous undescribed species of the genus from southern Africa. It was originall ...

'' Dyte & Smith, 1980 *''

Olegonegrobovia ''Olegonegrobovia'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Africa. It is named after the Russian entomologist Oleg Negrobov Oleg Pavlovich Negrobov (russian: link=no, Олег Павлович Негробов; 22 November ...

'' Grichanov, 1995 (possible synonym of ''

Teuchophorus ''Teuchophorus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Species * '' Teuchophorus acinaces'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 2004 * '' Teuchophorus acuminatus'' Grootaert, 2006 * '' Teuchophorus amami'' (Bickel, 1999) * '' Teuchophorus angul ...

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Parasyntormon ''Parasyntormon'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is closely related to ''Syntormon'', and was formerly considered a synonym of it. Species * ''Parasyntormon appendiculatus'' Harmston & Knowlton, 1943 * ''Parasyntormon ...

'' Wheeler, 1899 *''

Phrudoneura ''Phrudoneura'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae from the Australasian realm. It was originally created as a subgenus of ''Sympycnus''. It is currently regarded as ''incertae sedis'' within the family by Daniel J. Bickel (201 ...

'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 1987 (''

incertae sedis ' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertain ...

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Pinacocerus ''Pinacocerus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, known from Chile and Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. A ...

'' Van Duzee, 1930 *''

Scelloides ''Scelloides'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent in 1933. However, as the genus was not designated a type species, this name was unavailable until 1989, w ...

'' Bickel & Dyte, 1989 *''

Scotiomyia ''Scotiomyia'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in Papua New Guinea, Singapore and China. Species * ''Scotiomyia flavicauda'' Wei & Yang, 2007 – China * ''Scotiomyia fusca'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997 – ...

'' Meuffels & Grootaert, 1997 *''

Suschania ''Suschania'' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Dolichopodidae. It contains one species, ''Suschania stackelbergi'', described from Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. References Sympycninae Dolichopodidae genera Monotypi ...

'' Negrobov, 2003 *''

Sympycnus ''Sympycnus'' is a genus of fly, flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Species Subgenus ''Sympycnus'' Hermann Loew, Loew, 1857: Subgenus ''Subsympycnus'' Theodor Becker, Becker, 1922: * ''Sympycnus griseicollis'' (Theodor Becker, Becker, 1922) ...

'' Loew, 1857 *''

Syntormon ''Syntormon'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes about 110 species worldwide, more than 50 of which were described from the Palaearctic realm. Species The following species are included in the genus: Subgenus ''Syn ...

'' Loew, 1857 *'' Telmaturgus'' Mik, 1874 *''

Tetrachaetus ''Tetrachaetus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, found in New Zealand. The genus was originally named by Octave Parent Abbé Octave Parent (15 June 1882, in Trescault – 9 February 1942, in Ambleteuse) was a French entomolo ...

'' Bickel & Dyte, 1989 *''

'' Loew, 1857 *'' Yumbera'' Bickel, 1992

References

* Dolichopodidae subfamilies {{Dolichopodidae-stub