Genus Crossopalpus Bigot

Crossopalpus Bigot, 1857: 557, 563. Type species: Platypalpus ambiguus Macquart, 1827 (by monotypy) [=? Crossopalpus flexuosus (Loew, 1840)].

Eudrapetis Melander, 1918: 187 (as subgenus of Drapetis). Type species: Drapetis spectabilis Melander, 1902 (by original designation).

Therinopsis Vimmer, 1939: 64 . Type species: Therinopsis richardsi Vimmer, 1939 (by monotypy) [= Crossopalpus humilis (Frey, 1913)].

Remarks. Currently the world fauna of Crossopalpus numbers 83 species including the one new species described below. Seventeen species are known from the Afrotropical Realm (3 from D.R. Congo). Raffone (1994) provided a key to the Afrotropical species of Crossopalpus .