| Achradocera | |
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| Achradocera barbata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Diaphorinae |
| Genus: | Achradocera Becker, 1922[1] |
| Type species | |
| Achradocera femoralis | |
Achradocera is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It is distributed in the Nearctic and Neotropical realms as well as in Polynesia.[3] Several Afrotropical species were also placed in the genus, but in 2018 they were transferred to Chrysotus.[4] Achradocera was formerly considered a subgenus of Chrysotus, but was restored as a separate genus by Harold E. Robinson (1975).[3]
Adult males of Achradocera can be recognised by several secondary sex characteristics: their antennae have the first flagellomere elongated and swollen at the base with a narrow tip, and they have rows of thickened setae underneath the eyes.[3]
- ^ a b Becker, T. (1922). "Dipterologischen Studien. Dolichopodidae. B. Nearktische und Neotropische Regions". Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (in German). 13 (1): 207–209.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Bickel, Daniel J. (2000). "New World Achradocera in Hawai'i, Tonga, and French Polynesia, with discussion of the genus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 64: 14–20.
- ^ Grichanov, Igor Ya. (2018). "An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)". Plant Protection News, Supplements (25). St.Petersburg: All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR). doi:10.5281/zenodo.1187006.