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.[2]
Revisions of the genus Medetera by Bickel in 1985 and 1987 suggested that Dolichophorus is derived from Medetera (rendering Medeteraparaphyletic) and is closely related to the Medetera aberrans and Medetera melanesiana species groups.[3][4] This was confirmed by a 2011 molecular phylogenetic analysis of Medetera and related genera.[5]
^Parent, O. (1944). "Dipteres Dolichopodides recueillis en Chine du Nord, en Mongolie et en Mandchourie par le R. P. E. Licent". Revue Française d'Entomologie. 10 (4): 121–131.