Campsicnemus Haliday

Evenhuis, Neal L., 2009, Review of Campsicnemus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) of the Marquesas, French Polynesia, with description of four new species groups, Zootaxa 2004, pp. 25-48 : 27

Campsicnemus Haliday

Camptosceles Haliday, 1832: 357 (subgenus of Medeterus ). Suppressed by I.C.Z.N. (1958: 349 [Opinion 531]). Leptopezina Macquart, 1835: 554. Type species Diastata gracilis Meigen, 1820 , by monotypy. Nomen oblitum (see Evenhuis 2003).

Campsicnemus Haliday in Walker, 1851: 187. Type species: Dolichopus scambus Fallén, 1823 , by validation of I.C.Z.N. (1958: 351 [Opinion 531]). Nomen protectum (see Evenhuis, 2003).

Two named species groups of Campsicnemus are previously known from French Polynesia: the lobatus group (containing 5 species), and the zigzag group (containing 5 species) from the Society Islands ( Evenhuis, 2008). Four additional groups containing species occurring in the Marquesas are described in this study: the aa group (common name: “Marquesan vowel flies”), the englundi group (common name: “Polynesian silly-walk flies”), the gladiator group (common name: “Marquesan gladiator flies”), and the hihiroa group (common name: “Polynesian eye-lash flies”). Other species from French Polynesia are currently under study and, in comparison to other known Campsicnemus in the Pacific including the Hawaiian Islands, will be placed in other species groups.