Afrohercostomus
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Afrohercostomus
| display_parents = 2
| authority = Grichanov, 2010{{cite journal|last=Grichanov|first=I. Ya.|year=2010|title=A new genus of Dolichopodini from Tropical Africa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=International Journal of Dipterological Research|volume=21|issue=3|pages=183–194}}
| type_species = Hercostomus straeleni
| type_species_authority = Vanschuytbroeck, 1951
}}
Afrohercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.{{cite journal|first=Igor Ya.|last=Grichanov|year=2018|title=An annotated catalogue of afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera)|journal=Plant Protection News, Supplements|publisher=All-Union Research Institute of Plant Protection (VISR)|place=St.Petersburg|issue=25|doi=10.5281/zenodo.1187006|doi-access=free}} Many of the species were formerly from "Hercostomus Group I" (or the "Hercostomus" straeleni group), one of three groups of Afrotropical Hercostomus species created by Igor Grichanov in 1999.{{cite journal|first=I. Ya.|last=Grichanov|year=2011|title=A key to the Afrotropical genera of the subfamily Dolichopodinae with descriptions of new taxa (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=https://www.biosoil.ru/files/fscpublications/fee/00000347.pdf|access-date=22 January 2024|journal=Far Eastern Entomologist|issue=234|pages=1–33}}
Species
- Afrohercostomus afer (Rondani, 1873) – Ethiopia
- Afrohercostomus argyropus (Loew, 1858)
- Afrohercostomus argyropus argyropus (Loew, 1858) – Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
- Afrohercostomus argyropus par (Parent, 1934) – Angola, Botswana, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
- Afrohercostomus blagoderovi (Grichanov, 1999){{cite journal|first=Igor Ya.|last=Grichanov|year=1999|title=Afrotropical species of the genus Hercostomus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=http://grichanov.aiq.ru/hercosto.htm|journal=International Journal of Dipterological Research|volume=10|issue=1|pages=7–44}} – Kenya
- Afrohercostomus caprivi (Grichanov, 2004){{cite journal|last=Grichanov|first=Igor Ya.|year=2004|title=Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=http://vizr.spb.ru/assets/docs/vestnik/sup/s3.pdf|journal=Plant Protection News, Supplements|pages=1–244|publisher=All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection RAAS|place=St.Petersburg|issn=1815-3682}} – Namibia
- Afrohercostomus congoensis (Curran, 1925) – Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Uganda
- Afrohercostomus dimidiatus (Curran, 1939) – Zimbabwe
- Afrohercostomus eronis (Curran, 1926) – Burundi, ?Madagascar, South Africa, Tanzania
- Afrohercostomus golubtsovi (Grichanov, 1999) – Uganda
- Afrohercostomus jani (Dyte, 1957) – Cameroon, DR Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
- Afrohercostomus natalensis Grichanov, 2010 – South Africa
- Afrohercostomus rhodesiensis (Parent, 1939) – Zimbabwe
- Afrohercostomus straeleni (Vanschuytbroeck, 1951) – DR Congo, Uganda
- Afrohercostomus stuckenbergi Grichanov, 2010 – Lesotho, South Africa
- Afrohercostomus ultimus (Parent, 1935) – DR Congo, Kenya