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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Dolichopodinae » Dolichopus » eudactylus group (Dolichopus eudactylus group)

eudactylus group

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References
Longlegged Fly - Dolichopus - male fly - Dolichopus - male fly - Dolichopus - male Fly - Dolichopus tonsus - female Dolichopodidae - Dolichopus - male long-legged fly - Dolichopus - male long-legged fly - Dolichopus Dolichopus? - Dolichopus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Orthorrhapha)
Superfamily Empidoidea
Family Dolichopodidae (Longlegged Flies)
Subfamily Dolichopodinae
Genus Dolichopus
No Taxon eudactylus group
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dolichopus eudactylus Loew 1861
Dolichopus tonsus Loew 1861
Dolichopus batillifer Loew 1861
Dolichopus palaestricus Loew 1862
Dolichopus dakotensis Aldrich 1893
Dolichopus versutus Van Duzee 1922
Identification
The most common of the species with segment 5 of male fore tarsi enlarged, flattened, and black and segment 4 white.
Range
Eastern United States, southern Ontario
Remarks
The species here are distinguished by proportions of segments 3-5 of fore tarsi of male and by the presence of cilia under the hind femora. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zg0t3HdkK3cC&pg=PA259
Internet References
D. dakotensis specimen at diptera.info
D. eudactylus type at MCZ
D. tonsus type at MCZ
Contributed by John F. Carr on 26 August, 2011 - 8:02pm
Last updated 21 August, 2015 - 6:20am

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