| Dolichopus | |
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| Dolichopus urbanus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichopodinae |
| Tribe: | Dolichopodini |
| Genus: | Dolichopus Latreille, 1796 |
| Type species | |
| Musca ungulata | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Dolichopus is a large cosmopolitan genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Adults are small flies, typically less than 8 mm in length. Nearly all species are metallic greenish-blue to greenish-bronze.[3] It is the largest genus of Dolichopodidae with more than 600 species worldwide.[4]
The name of the genus (δολιχός, long, and ποὺς, foot) refers to the length of the feet of its species.[5]
- ^ Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott Edward; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 283. American Museum of Natural History: 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:cotddo>2.0.co;2. hdl:2246/451.
- ^ Grichanov, I. Ya (1999). A check list of Genera of the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Studia Dipterologica. pp. 327–332pp.
- ^ D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1978). Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Orthorrhapha, Brachycera) (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/5) (PDF). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 90 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Genus Dolichopus". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-07-30.