Poecilobothrus Mik, 1878

Grichanov, I. Ya., 2020, New records of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Russian Primorye and notes on some Chinese species, Russian Entomological Journal 29 (4), pp. 432-438 : 437

Genus Poecilobothrus Mik, 1878

NOTES. Until now the genus Poecilobothrus , belonging to the subfamily Dolichopodinae , had long been supposed to be Mediterranean in distribution, with 16 known species [ Grichanov, 2017] occurring in the West Palaearctic countries with relatively mild climate, from southern Scandinavia in the North, to North Africa and Central and Middle Asia ( Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) in the South [I raise here Poecilobothrus flavifemoratus Grichanov et Tonguç, 2010 , subspecies of P. varicoloris (Becker, 1917) , to a species level (stat.n.)]. With new re-combinations in this paper (see below) the genus is distributed in the Russian Prymorye and all over China in addition to West Palaearctic countries, numbering totally 31 valid species. See also comments under Poecilobothrus pterostichoides .