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Dolichopodinae

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Asilomorpha
Superfamilia: Empidoidea
Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Dolichopodinae
Genera: Allohercostomus - Anasyntormon - Argyrochlamys - Cheiromyia - Dolichopus - Gymnopternus - Hercostomus - Metaparaclius - Muscidideicus - Ortochile - Paraclius - Parahercostomus - Pelastoneurus - Platyopsis - Poecilobothrus - Prohercostomus - Stenopygium - Sybistroma - Tachytrechus
[list of genera after Brooks (2005)]

References

* Bickel, D.J. 2008: The Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) of New Caledonia, with descriptions and records from Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 197: 13–47.
* Brooks, S.E. 2005: Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa, 857: 1–158. Abstract & excerpt
* Pollet, M.; Germann, C.; Tanner, S.; Bernasconi, M.V. 2010: Hypotheses from mitochondrial DNA: congruence and conflict between DNA sequences and morphology in Dolichopodinae systematics (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Invertebrate systematics, 24: 32-50. doi: 10.1071/IS09040

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