Genus Stilpon Loew

Stilpon Loew, 1859: 34 (as subgenus of Drapetis Meigen). Type-species: Tachydromia graminum Fallén, 1815, by subsequent designation Loew, 1864: 5.

Tetraneurella Dahl, 1909: 362 . Type-species: T. beckeri Dahl, 1909 [= Stilpon graminum (Fallén, 1915)], by monotypy. Pseudostilpon Séguy, 1950: 83 . Type-species: Tachydromia paludosa Perris, 1852, by original designation. Stylpon: Raffone, 1986: 63, error.

Remarks. Currently, there are 62 species of Stilpon worldwide (including two species described here). However, only two species have been reported from the Afrotropical Region: S. leleupi Smith, 1969 (South Africa) and S.

lomaense Raffone, 1986 (Sierra Leone). Stilpon obscuripes Adams, 1905 (Rhodesia / Zimbabwe) was transferred to Crossopalpus by Cumming and Cooper (1992).