Machaerium (fly)

Machaerium is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^[4] It is distributed in the Western Palaearctic, with a single record from Tanzania in the Afrotropics.^[5]

Machaerium
Machaerium maritimae, Langstone Bridge, Hayling Island
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Hydrophorinae
Tribe:	Thinophilini
Genus:	Machaerium Haliday, 1832[1]
Type species
Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832[1]
Synonyms
Macherium Rondani, 1856 (unjustified emendation)[2] Smiliotus Loew, 1857[3]

Species

• Machaerium maritimae Haliday, 1832^[1] – Europe, North Africa
• Machaerium sordidum Becker, 1908^[6] – Canary Islands
• Machaerium thinophilum (Loew, 1857)^[3] – Italy, Croatia, Tanzania^[5]

Machaerium henanense Yang & Grootaert, 1999^[7] has been renamed to Nepalomyia hui Yang & Wang, 2006^[4]