Hercostomoides Explained

Hercostomoides is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from Asia to Australia and the western Pacific Ocean.^[1]

Species

The genus contains seven species:^[1]

• Hercostomoides baroalba Bickel, 2022 – Australia
• Hercostomoides bhartii Grichanov, 2017 – Indonesia (Highland Papua)^[2]
• Hercostomoides flavipleurus Bickel, 2022 – Australia
• Hercostomoides gagnei Bickel, 2022 – Australia
• Hercostomoides rufinus (Frey, 1925) (formerly Hercostomoides indonesianus (Hollis, 1964)) – Korea, Japan, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Zhejiang), Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam,^[3] Australia
• Hercostomoides wauensis Bickel, 2022 – New Guinea
• Hercostomoides yapensis Bickel, 2022 – Yap Islands, Guam

Notes and References

1. Bickel. Daniel J.. 2022. A Revision of the Genus Hercostomoides Meuffels and Grootaert (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 124. 3. 549–563. 10.4289/0013-8797.124.3.549.
2. Grichanov. I. Ya.. 2017. A new species of Hercostomoides Meuffels et Grootaert, 1997 from Indonesia with notes and new combinations for some Oriental Sympycninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Halteres. 8. 123–126. 10.5281/zenodo.1134297. 2018-12-18. 2018-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163211/https://www.antdiversityindia.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Grichanov_Hercostomoides_upload.7222944.pdf. dead.
3. Kim. Young-Kun. Suh. Sang Jae. 2022. The First Record of the Genus Hercostomoides (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity. 38. 1. 39–41. 10.5635/ASED.2022.38.1.025. free.