Drapetis Meigen

Grootaert, Patrick & Shamshev, Igor, 2013, The flies of the family Hybotidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) collected during the Boyekoli Ebale Congo 2010 Expedition in Democratic Republic of Congo, Zootaxa 3603 (1), pp. 1-61 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3603.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0353FEB5-CFB5-4E59-969A-AAB2E86E18DD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6150536
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4808879A-CF7D-FFCB-FF21-BDEBFDC279B7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Drapetis Meigen
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Genus Drapetis Meigen View in CoL View at ENA

Drapetis Meigen, 1822: 91 View in CoL . Type species: D. exilis Meigen, 1822 View in CoL (by monotypy).

Remarks. Currently, Drapetis includes about 80 species worldwide, with only seven species known from the Afrotropical Realm including three new species described here from D.R. Congo. Previously known Afrotropical species of this genus are D. capensis Smith, 1967 and D. hiatus Whittington, 1993 from South Africa, D. inquilina Séguy, 1945 from Kenya, and Palaearctic D. flavipes Macquart, 1834 recorded from Sudan ( Séguy 1945; Smith 1967; Raffone 1991; Whittington 1993). Whittington (1993) provided a key to Afrotropical species of Drapetis that we updated with our new species.