''Pseudohercostomus'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the

Oriental The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of ''Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the ...

and

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

realms as well as

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. Historically, the genus has generally been placed in the subfamily

Dolichopodinae Dolichopodinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. Genera *'' Allohercostomus'' Yang, Saigusa & Masunaga, 2001 *'' Katangaia'' Parent, 1933 (Dolichopodinae or ''incertae sedis'') *†'' Prohercostomus'' Grichanov, 1997 *'' Pse ...

. In 2005, based on a cladistic analysis of the subfamily, Scott E. Brooks excluded ''Pseudohercostomus'' from the Dolichopodinae. The systematic position of the genus is still unclear, though a possible relationship with the New World genus ''

Keirosoma ''Keirosoma'' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the New World. The subfamily has variously been placed in the Rhaphiinae, Diaphorinae or Sympycninae Sympycninae is a subfamily of flies in the family Doli ...

'' has been suggested.

Species

The genus contains five species: * '' Pseudohercostomus allini'' Negrobov, 1988 – Chile * '' Pseudohercostomus congoensis'' Grootaert & Van de Velde, 2021 – DR Congo; Mozambique * '' Pseudohercostomus echinatus''

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, 1931 – Java, Indonesia * '' Pseudohercostomus sinensis'' Yang & Grootaert, 1999 – China (Yunnan) * '' Pseudohercostomus singaporensis'' Grootaert & Van de Velde, 2021 – Singapore; Cambodia

References

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae genera Taxa named by Aleksandr Stackelberg Diptera of Asia Diptera of Africa Diptera of South America {{Dolichopodidae-stub