Liancalus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains at least 21 species distributed worldwide except in Australasia and Oceania. The genus includes some of the largest species in the family, with body length approaching 12 mm in some species.
Nomenclature Liancalus Loew, 1857 is a replacement name for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856, which was preoccupied by a beetle genus. However, the name Liancalus is threatened by a change in type species of Anoplomerus from "Hydrophorus Regius Fabr." (now Liancalus virens (Scopoli, 1763)) to "Hydrophorus Notatus Meig." (now Scellus notatus (Fabricius, 1781)), made in an overlooked unpaginated corrigendum on the last page of Rondani, 1856, which would make Liancalus a synonym of Scellus. An application to the ICZN was made to conserve the names Liancalus and Scellus by designating Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 as the type species of Anoplomerus. This was accepted by the ICZN in 2018.
Species
Liancalus adenensis Dyte, 1967 Liancalus benedictus Becker, 1922 Liancalus dytei Negrobov, Grootaert & Coulibaly, 1987 Liancalus genualis Loew, 1861 Liancalus glaucus Becker, 1908 Liancalus hydrophilus Aldrich, 1893 Liancalus lasius Wei & Liu, 1995 Liancalus limbatus Van Duzee, 1917 Liancalus lobatus Parent, 1932 Liancalus maculosus Yang, 1998 Liancalus peringueyi Curran, 1926 Liancalus pterodactyl Runyon & Hurley, 2015 Liancalus quadrisetus Dyte, 1967 Liancalus querulus Osten Sacken, 1877 Liancalus shandonganus Yang, 1998 Liancalus similis Aldrich, 1893 Liancalus sinensis Yang, 1998 Liancalus sonorus Runyon & Hurley, 2015 Liancalus vaillanti Dyte, 1967 Liancalus virens (Scopoli, 1763) Liancalus zhenzhuristi Negrobov, 1979
The following are synonyms of other species: Liancalus decolor Parent, 1939: synonym of Liancalus peringueyi Curran, 1926
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