Platypalpus Macquart

Kustov, Semen, Shamshev, Igor & Grootaert, Patrick, 2015, New data on the genus Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Caucasus with description of seven new species, Zootaxa 3973 (3), pp. 451-473 : 452

Genus Platypalpus Macquart

Coryneta Meigen, 1800: 27 . Type species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775 (by subsequent designation of Engel 1939: 43). Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. 1963: 339 (Opinion 678).

Platypalpus Macquart, 1827: 92 . Type species: Musca cursitans Fabricius, 1775 (by subsequent designation of Westwood, 1840: 132).

Phoroxypha Rondani, 1856: 146 . Type species: Tachydromia longicornis Meigen, 1822 (by original designation).

Cleptodromia Corti, 1907: 101 (as subgenus of Tachydromia ). Type species: Tachydromia (Cleptodromia) longimana Corti, 1907 (by monotypy).

Brevios Brunetti, 1913: 22 . Type species: B. longicornis Brunetti, 1913 (by original designation).

Howlettia Brunetti, 1913: 23 . Type species: H. flavipes Brunetti, 1913 (by monotypy).

Charadrodromia Melander, 1928: 292 . Type species: C. microphona Melander, 1928 (by original designation).

Tachydromia , authors, not Meigen, 1803, misidentifications.

Diagnosis. Platypalpus includes very small to large species with body size varying from about 1–5 mm and it is recognised by the following combination of characters: eyes separated in both sexes, bare; postpronotal lobe well differentiated; scutum usually distinctly longer than broad; mid leg usually raptorial, mid femur thickened and usually armed with rows of spine-like setae ventrally, mid tibia usually with more or less prominent apical spur; wing with veins A1 and CuA2 present (cell cup present).