Diostracus Loew, 1862

Grichanov, I. Ya., 2015, A New Species Of Diostracus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) From The Yunnan Province Of China, Far Eastern Entomologist 300, pp. 12-16 : 12

Genus Diostracus Loew, 1862

Diostracus Loew, 1861: 43 .

Type species: Diostracus prasinus Loew, 1861 , by monotypy.

NOTES. See Grichanov (2013) for diagnosis of the genus. Grichanov (2013) recognised four subgenera of the genus, i.e. Diostracus Loew, 1861 , Sphyrotarsus Mik, 1874 , Lagodechia Özdikmen, Negrobov et Tsurikov ,, 1995) and Wang

1996, and Ozmena 2010 . Saigusa (1984 et al. (2015) distinguished nine species groups inhabiting Myanmar, Nepal and Tibet. A new species is described and illustrated here. Diostracus campsicnemoides sp. n. from the Yunnan Province of China belongs to the subgenus Diostracus (sensu Grichanov, 2013) , or to the tangalensis species group (sensu Wang et al., 2015) comprising single species D. tangalensis Saigusa, 1984 known from Nepal. The last species is associated here with the subgenus Diostracus for the first time.