Crossopalpus Bigot

Grootaert, Patrick & Shamshev, Igor, 2013, The flies of the family Hybotidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) collected during the Boyekoli Ebale Congo 2010 Expedition in Democratic Republic of Congo, Zootaxa 3603 (1), pp. 1-61 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3603.1.1
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scientific name	Crossopalpus Bigot
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Genus Crossopalpus Bigot View in CoL

Crossopalpus Bigot, 1857: 557 View in CoL , 563. Type species: Platypalpus ambiguus Macquart, 1827 View in CoL (by monotypy) [=? Crossopalpus flexuosus (Loew, 1840) View in CoL ].

Eudrapetis Melander, 1918: 187 (as subgenus of Drapetis View in CoL ). Type species: Drapetis spectabilis Melander, 1902 View in CoL (by original designation).

Therinopsis Vimmer, 1939: 64 . Type species: Therinopsis richardsi Vimmer, 1939 (by monotypy) [= Crossopalpus humilis (Frey, 1913) View in CoL ].

Remarks. Currently the world fauna of Crossopalpus numbers 83 species including the one new species described below. Seventeen species are known from the Afrotropical Realm (3 from D.R. Congo). Raffone (1994) provided a key to the Afrotropical species of Crossopalpus .