Eleven new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) and a key to the species of Madagascar and adjacent islands Author Grichanov, Igor Ya. 0000-0002-7887-7668 All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskogo 3, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, 196608, Russia grichanov@mail.ru text European Journal of Taxonomy 2021 2021-06-18 755 1 47 87 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.755.1399 journal article 10.5852/ejt.2021.755.1399 d7d8ccff-7a58-4fc8-9eec-c2588b457d56 2118-9773 4983303 4C7C9B68-4026-45F9-98C4-430FE018119F Amblypsilopus abruptus species group Diagnosis See Bickel (1994) for a diagnosis of the group. The Madagascan Amblypsilopus abruptus species group shares mostly primitive characters, such as the simple cercus and surstylus, short antennae, broad face, mostly non-ornamented and non-elongated legs, unmodified wing venation, usually dark body and femora. Notes The Amblypsilopus abruptus group is widespread throughout the Old World tropics. The following Madagascan species belong to the A. abruptus group: A. ankarana , A. cilifrons , A. flabellifer , A. kraussi , A. madagascariensis and A. prysjonesi . Amblypsilopus cilifrons is reported also from DR Congo , Kenya , Namibia , Nigeria and Togo . Amblypsilopus prysjonesi is known only from the type locality on the Seychelles islands (Aldabra).