Acymatopus Explained

Acymatopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^[1] It is distributed in Japan and China, and lives exclusively on marine coasts. It is similar in appearance to the genus Conchopus, which is also found in marine coasts.^[2]

Species

There are six known species in the genus:^[2]

• Acymatopus femoralis Takagi, 1965 – Japan (Shikoku and Kyushu)
• Acymatopus longisetosus Takagi, 1965 – Japan (along the Pacific coast of eastern Honshu)
• Acymatopus major Takagi, 1965 – Japan (along the eastern shore of the Kii Peninsula and the Pacific coast of Kyushu)
• Acymatopus minor Takagi, 1965 – Japan (widely distributed, except for areas along the Pacific coast of northern Honshu)
• Acymatopus oxycercus Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005^[2] – Japan (Chiba Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture)
• Acymatopus takeishii Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005^[2] – Northeast China (Dalian)

Notes and References

1. Book: Yang. D.. Zhu. Y.. Wang. M.. Zhang. L.. World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).. 2006. China Agricultural University Press. Beijing. 9787811171020. 1–704.
2. Masunaga. Kazuhiro. Saigusa. Toyohei. Yang. Ding. Taxonomy of the genus Acymatopus Takagi (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Entomological Science. 2005. 8. 3. 301–311. 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2005.00129.x. free.