Lyroneurus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes 17 species distributed in the Neotropical realm. It was formerly treated as a subgenus of Diaphorus; more recently Lyroneurus has been treated as a synonym of Chrysotus, but Capellari & Amorim (2010) maintains it as a distinct genus noting that Chrysotus is possibly paraphyletic.
Species The species below are named assuming Lyroneurus is treated as a separate genus:
Lyroneurus adustus (Wiedemann, 1830) – Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina Lyroneurus annulatus (Macquart, 1842) – Mexico, Lesser Antilles, Brazil Lyroneurus apicalis Becker, 1922 – Argentina, Paraguay Lyroneurus chalybaeus Röder, 1892 – Ecuador Lyroneurus coerulescens Loew, 1857 – Mexico, Suriname, Ecuador, Argentina Lyroneurus curvispina (Van Duzee, 1929) – Guatemala, Panama Lyroneurus fratellus Becker, 1922 – Colombia, Argentina Lyroneurus laetus Becker, 1922 – Paraguay Lyroneurus luteoviridis Parent, 1935 – Colombia Lyroneurus maculatus Parent, 1930 – Argentina Lyroneurus marginalis Becker, 1922 – Peru, Bolivia Lyroneurus occultus Becker, 1922 – Colombia Lyroneurus perplexus (Van Duzee, 1929) – Panama Lyroneurus praestans Parent, 1931 – Peru Lyroneurus simplex Aldrich, 1896 – Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil Lyroneurus suavis Loew, 1857 – Costa Rica, Panama, Guyana, Suriname, Bolivia, Argentina Lyroneurus willistoni (Van Duzee, 1931) – ?Brazil
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