Urodolichus

Urodolichus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Urodolichus Lamb, 1922[1]
Type species
Urodolichus porphyropoides Lamb, 1922[1]
Synonyms
Mischopyga Grootaert & Meuffels, 1990[2] Ounyana Hollis, 1964[3]

Urodolichus is a genus of fly in the family Dolichopodidae.[1][4] It is known from the Afrotropical realm (Seychelles and Madagascar), Indomalayan realm and Australasian realm (New Guinea). It has been placed in either Rhaphiinae or Diaphorinae, though Grichanov & Brooks (2017) consider the genus to be incertae sedis within the family Dolichopodidae.[5]

Species

• Urodolichus artifacies (Grootaert & Meuffels, 1990)[2] – Papua New Guinea
• Urodolichus caudatus Lamb, 1922[1] – Seychelles
• Urodolichus gracilis Lamb, 1922[1] – Seychelles
• Urodolichus iulilamellatus (Wei, 2006)[6][7] – China (Guizhou)
• Urodolichus javanus (De Meijere, 1916)[8][7] – Indonesia (Java)
• Urodolichus keiseri (Hollis, 1964)[3] – India (Goa), Malaysia (Sabah), Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
• Urodolichus kubani (Olejníček, 2002)[9] – Cambodia, Laos
• Urodolichus lambi Grichanov, 1998[10] – Madagascar
• Urodolichus ninae Grichanov, 1998[10] – Madagascar
• Urodolichus porphyropoides Lamb, 1922[1] – Seychelles
• Urodolichus villosiceps Grichanov, Capellari & Bickel, 2016[7] – Indonesia (West Papua), Papua New Guinea

References

1. Lamb, C.G (1922). "The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner M.A. Vol.VII. No.VIII-Diptera: Asilidae, Scenopinidae, Dolichopodidae, Pipunculidae, Syrphidae". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology. 2. 18. London: The Linnean Society of London: 361–416. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb00554.x.
2. Grootaert, Patrick; Meuffels, H. J. G. (1990). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea. IX, Mischopyga gen. nov. and Physopyga gen. nov., two new genera from the mangrove in Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Indo-Malayan Zoology. 6 (2): 195–206. ISSN 0168-6259. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
3. Hollis, D. (1964). "Dolichopodidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Ceylon, collected by F. Keiser". Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 75: 219–230.
4. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
5. Grichanov, I. Ya.; Brooks, S. E. (2017). "56. Dolichopodidae (long-legged dance flies)" (PDF). In Kirk-Spriggs, A.H.; Sinclair, B.J. (eds.). Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Suricata 5. Vol. 2. Nematocerous Diptera and lower Brachycera. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute. pp. 1265–1320.
6. Wei, L.M. (2006). Dolichopodidae. In: Li Z.Z. & Jin D.C. (eds)Insects from Fanjingshan Landscape. Guiyang: Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House. pp. 468–502. ISBN 9787806624517.
7. Grichanov, I. Ya.; Capellari, R. S.; Bickel, D. J. (2016). "New and Little-Known Species of the Genus Urodolichus Lamb, 1922 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist. 310: 1–10. ISSN 1026-051X. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
8. Meijere, Johannes Cornelis Hendrik de (1916). "Studien über südostasiatische Diptera XII. Javanische Dolichopodiden und Ephydriden". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 59: 225–273. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
9. Olejníček, J. (2002). "Nematoproctus kubani sp.nov. (Insecta, Dip tera, Dolichopodidae) from Laos". Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Biologicae (Brno). 87: 67–70.
10. Grichanov, Igor Ya. (1998). "Two new species of Urodolichus Lamb (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Madagascar". Dipterological Research. 91: 23–26. Retrieved 11 March 2017.