Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001

Kehlmaier, Christian, 2005, Taxonomic studies on Palaearctic and Oriental Eudorylini (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with the description of three new species, Zootaxa 1030 (1), pp. 1-48 : 35

Genus Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001

Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001 : in Skevington & Yeates, 2001: 435.

Type species: Pipunculus eucalypti Perkins, 1905 ; by original designation.

The genus Dasydorylas has only recently been erected as a result of a comprehensive phylogenetic study of world Eudorylini by Skevington & Yeates (2001). Although representing a set of morphologically clearly different species in regard to the other genera of Eudorylini , its limits are not clearly defined yet and its members can only be recognized “…by a combination of characters, primarily because of the character conflict generated by the enigmatic basal members of the clade.” ( Skevington & Yeates 2001: 438). Future taxonomic and phylogenetic investigation will hopefully give a more precise picture of this group.