Subgenus Dasyphora s.s.

Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 409 (as genus). Type species: Musca agilis Meigen sensu Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [misidentification, = Musca pratorum Meigen, 1826].

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic purplish-blue to blackish-blue; wing without maculae. Eye densely setulose. Female with the parafrons entirely setulose or only on upper half. Dorsocentrals 3+4. Prosternum setulose or bare. Wing with basal portion of stem-vein setulose or not dorsally; R1 setulose dorsally and ventrally. First abdominal sternite widely setulose.

Distribution (17 species). Oriental and Palaearctic.

References. Oriental species: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998); Palaearctic: Hennig (1963b, 1964a), Peris and Llorente (1963), Zimin and Elberg (1988), Xue and Chao (1998), Gregor et al. (2002).