HYBOTIDAE

Grootaert, Patrick & Shamshev, Igor, 2014, New Tachydromiinae (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae) from different types of forests along the Congo river (D. R. of the Congo), Belgian Journal of Entomology 18, pp. 1-34 : 1-34

Family HYBOTIDAE

Subfamily Tachydromiinae Genus Crossopalpus Bigot, 1857

REMARKS. Currently the world fauna of Crossopalpus numbers 84 species. Seventeen species are known from the Afrotropical Realm (3 from D. R. Congo). RAFFONE (1994) provided a key to the Afrotropical species of Crossopalpus . GROOTAERT & SHAMSHEV (2013) reported 4 species from D. R. Congo: one new species, records for two previously described species and an unnamed female. Here below we report on a species described from South Africa – C. nyaka Smith, 1969 .