Liancalus
Introduction '''''Liancalus''''' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains at least 21 species distributed worldwide except in Australasia and Oceania. The genus includes some of the largest species in the family, with body length approaching 12 mm in some species.
Nomenclature ''Liancalus'' Loew, 1857 is a replacement name for ''Anoplomerus'' Rondani, 1856, which was preoccupied by a beetle genus. However, the name ''Liancalus'' is threatened by a change in type species of ''Anoplomerus'' from "''Hydrophorus Regius'' Fabr." (now ''Liancalus virens'' (Scopoli, 1763)) to "''Hydrophorus Notatus'' Meig." (now ''Scellus notatus'' (Fabricius, 1781)), made in an overlooked unpaginated corrigendum on the last page of Rondani, 1856, which would make ''Liancalus'' a synonym of ''Scellus''. An application to the ICZN was made to conserve the names ''Liancalus'' and ''Scellus'' by designating ''Dolichopus regius'' Fabricius, 1805 as the type species of ''Anoplomerus''. This was accepted by the ICZN in 2018.
Species *''Liancalus adenensis'' Dyte, 1967*''Liancalus benedictus'' Becker, 1922*''Liancalus dytei'' Negrobov, Grootaert & Coulibaly, 1987*''Liancalus genualis'' Loew, 1861*''Liancalus glaucus'' Becker, 1908*''Liancalus hydrophilus'' Aldrich, 1893*''Liancalus lasius'' Wei & Liu, 1995*''Liancalus limbatus'' Van Duzee, 1917*''Liancalus lobatus'' Parent, 1932*''Liancalus maculosus'' Yang, 1998*''Liancalus peringueyi'' Curran, 1926*''Liancalus pterodactyl'' Runyon & Hurley, 2015*''Liancalus quadrisetus'' Dyte, 1967*''Liancalus querulus'' Osten Sacken, 1877*''Liancalus shandonganus'' Yang, 1998*''Liancalus similis'' Aldrich, 1893*''Liancalus sinensis'' Yang, 1998*''Liancalus sonorus'' Runyon & Hurley, 2015*''Liancalus vaillanti'' Dyte, 1967*''Liancalus virens'' (Scopoli, 1763)*''Liancalus zhenzhuristi'' Negrobov, 1979The following are synonyms of other species:*''Liancalus decolor'' Parent, 1939: synonym of ''Liancalus peringueyi'' Curran, 1926
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