Dolichocephala

Dolichocephala is a genus of dagger flies in the family Empididae. There are at least 50 described species in Dolichocephala.^[2][3][4][5]

Dolichocephala
Dolichocephala irrorata in copula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Empididae
Subfamily:	Clinocerinae
Genus:	Dolichocephala Macquart, 1823
Synonyms
Ardoptera Macquart, 1827 Leptosceles Haliday, 1833 Obstinocephala Garrett Jones, 1940[1] Fur Garrett Jones, 1940[1]

Species

These 51 species belong to the genus Dolichocephala:

• D. afflicta Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. argus Melander, 1927^{[6] i c g b}
• D. arnaudi Sinclair & MacDonald, 2012^[7]
• D. austriaca Vaillant, 1968 ^{c g}
• D. bartaki Wagner, 1998 ^{c g}
• D. basilicata Wagner, 1995 ^{c g}
• D. bellstedti Joost, 1985 ^{c g}
• D. bicolor Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. borkenti Sinclair & MacDonald, 2012^[7]
• D. cavaticum Becker, 1889 ^{c g}
• D. chillcotti Sinclair & MacDonald, 2012^[7]
• D. ciwatikina Sinclair, 2005^{[8] c g}
• D. combinata Becker, 1914 ^{c g}
• D. cretica Wagner, 1995 ^{c g}
• D. curvata Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. duodecempunctata Smith, 1969 ^{c g}
• D. flamingo Smith, 1965 ^{c g}
• D. fugitivus Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. fuscilanx Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. guangdongensis Yang, Rootaert & Horvat, 2004^{[9] c g}
• D. guttata (Haliday, 1833)^{[10] c g}
• D. humanitatis Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. immaculata Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. incus Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. irroata (Fallén, 1815) ^{i c g}
• D. irrorata (Fallén, 1816) ^{c g}
• D. longicerca Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. maculatissima Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. malickyi Wagner, 1995 ^{c g}
• D. meyi Joost, 1990 ^{c g}
• D. monae Joost, 1981 ^{c g}
• D. oblongoguttata (Dale, 1878)^[10]
• D. ocellata (Costa, 1854)^{[11] c g}
• D. panesari Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004^{[9] c g}
• D. pavonica Vaillant & Gagneur, 1998 ^{c g}
• D. quadrispina Smith, 1969 ^{c g}
• D. rarinota Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. rotundinota Wagner, Leese & Panesar, 2004^{[9] c g}
• D. septemontata Brunetti, 1913
• D. sinica Horvat, 1994 ^{c g}
• D. sparsa Becker, 1914 ^{c g}
• D. srisukai Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. tali Garrett Jones, 1940^{[1] c g}
• D. teskeyi Sinclair & MacDonald, 2012^[7]
• D. thailandensis Sinclair & Plant, 2017 ^g
• D. thomasi Wagner, 1983 ^g
• D. vaillanti Wagner, 1995 ^{c g}
• D. vockerothi Sinclair & MacDonald, 2012^[7]
• D. walutikina Sinclair, 2005^{[8] c g}
• D. woodi Sinclair & MacDonald, 2012^[7]
• D. zwicki Wagner, 1995 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[2] c = Catalogue of Life,^[3] g = GBIF,^[4] b = Bugguide.net^[5]