| Liancalus | |
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| Lianculus virens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Hydrophorinae |
| Tribe: | Hydrophorini |
| Genus: | Liancalus Loew, 1857[1] |
| Type species | |
| Dolichopus regius (= Musca virens Scopoli, 1763) Fabricius, 1805
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Liancalus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[2] It contains at least 21 species distributed worldwide except in Australasia and Oceania. The genus includes some of the largest species in the family, with body length approaching 12 mm in some species.[3]
- ^ Loew, Hermann (1857). "Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Dipteren. Fünfter Beitrag". Programm der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz: 1–56.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Runyon, Justin B.; Hurley, Richard L. (2015). "A revision of the Nearctic species of Liancalus Loew (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". ZooKeys (483): 97–147. doi:10.3897/zookeys.483.9222. PMC 4351449. PMID 25755626. Retrieved 10 July 2016.