Syntormon pallipes

Syntormon pallipes is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in the Palearctic,^[3][4][5] Oriental and Afrotropical realms. In 2019, the mitochondrial genome of S. pallipes was sequenced, as the first representative of the subfamily Sympycninae.^[6]

Syntormon pallipes
Syntormon pallipes North Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Genus:	Syntormon
Species:	S. pallipes
Binomial name
Syntormon pallipes (Fabricius, 1794)
Synonyms[1][2]
Musca pallipes Fabricius, 1794 Rhaphium hamatus Zetterstedt, 1843 Syntormon pallipes var. immaculatus Santos Abreu, 1929 ?Syntormon pallipes var. uncitarsis Becker, 1902

Syntormon pseudospicatus is sometimes treated as a synonym of S. pallipes, but they are argued by Drake (2020) to be distinct species.^[7]

A subspecies named Syntormon pallipes longistylus was described by Igor Grichanov from Madagascar in 2001.^[1] In 2020, it was determined that this subspecies was in fact a distinct species, Syntormon longistylus.^[8]