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Dolichophorus
Dolichophorus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes eight species distributed in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical realms. The adults have a metallic green, green-black or blue-black body coloring, with some pruinescence.
Revisions of the genus Medetera by Bickel in 1985 and 1987 suggested that Dolichophorus is derived from Medetera (rendering Medetera paraphyletic) and is closely related to the Medetera aberrans and Medetera melanesiana species groups. This was confirmed by a 2011 molecular phylogenetic analysis of Medetera and related genera.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Dolichophorus kerteszi
speciesDolichophorus kerteszi
Dolichophorus caucasicus
speciesDolichophorus caucasicus
Dolichophorus madagascariensis
speciesDolichophorus madagascariensis
Dolichophorus friedmani
speciesDolichophorus friedmani
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1009593.