Dolichocephala Macquart, 1823

Kazerani, F., Shamshev, I. V., Morinière, J. & Thorn, S., 2022, New records of Empididae and Hybotidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Hyrcanian forest in Iran and Azerbaijan, Far Eastern Entomologist 462, pp. 20-28 : 22

Genus Dolichocephala Macquart, 1823

REMARKS. Dolichocephala includes 57 described species distributed almost worldwide,

except southern South America, Australia, and New Zealand (Sinclair & Plant, 2017).

Eleven species are known in the Afrotropics, 19 – in the Palaearctic, 20 – in the Oriental, 2 –

in the Australasia and 7 – in the Nearctic (Liu et al., 2014; Yang et al., 2007; Sinclair &

Plant, 2017). Members of the genus Dolichocephala are characterized by a narrow stalk connecting head and thorax, the position of occiput in relation to head, usually white spots or irrorations on the wings, and a distinct lobe beyond the clasping cercus in which the subepandrial sclerite of the male genitalia is usually extended (Sinclair & Evenhuis, 2005).