Acymatopus

Acymatopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.^[2][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.^[3]

Species

There are six known species in the genus:^[3]

• Acymatopus femoralis Takagi, 1965^[1] – Japan (Shikoku and Kyushu)
• Acymatopus longisetosus Takagi, 1965^[1] – Japan (along the Pacific coast of eastern Honshu)
• Acymatopus major Takagi, 1965^[1] – Japan (along the eastern shore of the Kii Peninsula and the Pacific coast of Kyushu)
• Acymatopus minor Takagi, 1965^[1] – Japan (widely distributed, except for areas along the Pacific coast of northern Honshu)
• Acymatopus oxycercus Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005^[3] – Japan (Chiba Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture)
• Acymatopus takeishii Masunaga, Saigusa & Yang, 2005^[3] – Northeast China (Dalian)

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