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 <small>Loew, 1857</small> is a replacement name for Anoplomerus <small>Rondani, 1856</small>, 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 <small>(Scopoli, 1763)</small>) to "Hydrophorus Notatus Meig." (now Scellus notatus <small>(Fabricius, 1781)</small>), 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 <small>Fabricius, 1805</small> as the type species of Anoplomerus. This was accepted by the ICZN in 2018.
Species
- Liancalus adenensis <small>Dyte, 1967</small>
- Liancalus benedictus <small>Becker, 1922</small>
- Liancalus dytei <small>Negrobov, Grootaert & Coulibaly, 1987</small>
- Liancalus genualis <small>Loew, 1861</small>
- Liancalus glaucus <small>Becker, 1908</small>
- Liancalus hydrophilus <small>Aldrich, 1893</small>
- Liancalus lasius <small>Wei & Liu, 1995</small>
- Liancalus limbatus <small>Van Duzee, 1917</small>
- Liancalus lobatus <small>Parent, 1932</small>
- Liancalus maculosus <small>Yang, 1998</small>
- Liancalus peringueyi <small>Curran, 1926</small>
- Liancalus pterodactyl <small>Runyon & Hurley, 2015</small>
- Liancalus quadrisetus <small>Dyte, 1967</small>
- Liancalus querulus <small>Osten Sacken, 1877</small>
- Liancalus shandonganus <small>Yang, 1998</small>
- Liancalus similis <small>Aldrich, 1893</small>
- Liancalus sinensis <small>Yang, 1998</small>
- Liancalus sonorus <small>Runyon & Hurley, 2015</small>
- Liancalus vaillanti <small>Dyte, 1967</small>
- Liancalus virens <small>(Scopoli, 1763)</small>
- Liancalus zhenzhuristi <small>Negrobov, 1979</small>
The following are synonyms of other species:
References