A review of Palearctic Teuchophorus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with an updated catalog and revised key to species

A new species of Teuchophorus (Dolichopodidae, Diptera) from Morocco

“…The holotype has been studied and photographed with a ZEISS Discovery V-12 stereo microscope and an AxioCam MRc5 camera in St. Petersburg. Male genitalia have not been dissected and figured as they have low taxonomic value in the genus Teuchophorus (Grichanov et al, 2012). Morphological terminology and abbreviations follow Cumming & Wood (2017) and Grichanov & Brooks (2017).…”

“…Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria) are anticipated. The Mediterranean Sea Region is inhabited by mostly endemic Teuchophorus species, being obviously a centre of diversity in the West Palaearctic (Grichanov et al, 2012;Kechev et al, 2014). Two species of the genus, i.e.…”

“…spinigerellus (Zetterstedt, 1843), are known from Morocco (Pârvu et al, 2006;Ebejer et al, 2019), and two more species, T. bipilosus Becker, 1908 andT. samraouii Grootaert, Stark et Meuffels, 1995, have been reported from neighbouring Alge-have been reported from neighbouring Alge-have been reported from neighbouring Algeria and the Canary Islands (Grichanov et al, 2012).…”

“…The twenty Palaearctic species of Teuchophorus Loew, 1857 (Sympycninae) have been recently reviewed, illustrated and keyed by Pollet & Kechev (2007) and Grichanov et al (2012). Later a new species has been described from Bulgaria (Kechev et al, 2014).…”