Syntormon pallipes is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in the Palearctic,Fauna EuropaeaBei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. Parent, O. (1938) Diptères Dolichopodidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 35 . 720 p., 1. 002 fig. Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf Oriental and Afrotropical realms. In 2019, the mitochondrial genome of S. pallipes was sequenced, as the first representative of the subfamily Sympycninae.
Syntormon pseudospicatus is sometimes treated as a synonym of S. pallipes, but they are argued by Drake (2020) to be distinct species.
A subspecies named Syntormon pallipes longistylus was described by Igor Grichanov from Madagascar in 2001. In 2020, it was determined that this subspecies was in fact a distinct species, Syntormon longistylus.
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External links Images representing Syntormon pallipes at BOLD