Paramedetera

Paramedetera is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^[1] It is distributed from southern China and Southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea, with a single species from the Afrotropical realm.^[2] It is placed in the subfamily Medeterinae, though molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest it may not belong in that subfamily.^[3] Unlike most members of Medeterinae, which are arboreal, Paramedetera is soil-dwelling and lives near aquatic habitats.^[2]

Paramedetera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Medeterinae
Genus:	Paramedetera Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1]
Type species
Paramedetera papuensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997[1]

Species

• Paramedetera ankarum Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Thailand, Singapore
• Paramedetera borneensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Brunei
• Paramedetera bruneiensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Brunei
• Paramedetera chelata Grootaert, 2006^[2] – Singapore
• Paramedetera digitata Grootaert, 2006^[2] – Singapore
• Paramedetera elongata Zhu, Yang & Grootaert, 2006^[2] – China
• Paramedetera horrorifera Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Thailand
• Paramedetera jinxiuensis Yang & Saigusa, 2001^[4] – China (Guangxi)
• Paramedetera medialis Yang & Saigusa, 1999 – China (Henan)
• Paramedetera micropyga Grootaert, 2006^[2] – Singapore
• Paramedetera obscura Grootaert, 2006^[2] – Singapore
• Paramedetera orientalis (Hollis, 1976)^[1] – Sumatra
• Paramedetera papuensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997^[1] – Papua New Guinea
• Paramedetera sierraleonensis Grichanov, 1999 – Sierra Leone
• Paramedetera sumatrensis Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997^[1] – Sumatra
• Paramedetera turschi Grootaert & Meuffels, 1997 – Thailand