Chrysotus

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Chrysotus.gramineus9.-.lindsey.jpg

| image_caption = Chrysotus gramineus

| taxon = Chrysotus

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Meigen, 1824

| type_species = Dolichopus neglectus{{cite journal|first1=Neal L.|last1=Evenhuis|first2=Thomas|last2=Pape|year=2019|title=Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names Part VII: Johann Wilhelm Meigen|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4703|issue=1|pages=1–193|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4703.1.1|pmid=32229894}}

| type_species_authority = Wiedemann, 1817

| subdivision_ranks = Subgenera

| subdivision =

• Angiopus Meuffels & Grootaert, 1996{{cite journal|last1=Meuffels|first1=H.J.G.|last2=Grootaert|first2=P.|year=1996|title=Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Papua New Guinea XIII. A remarkable new subgenus in the genus Chrysotus|url=http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/associated_publications/societe-royale-belge-dentomologie-koninklijke-belgische-vereniging-voor-entomologie-1/srbe-132-1996/meuffels-grootaert-bull-1-132-1996-223-231.pdf|access-date=28 November 2024|journal=Bulletin & Annales de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie|volume=132|issue=2|pages=223–231}}
• Chrysotus Meigen, 1824

| synonyms =

Lyroneurus Loew, 1857{{cite journal|last1=Pollet|first1=Marc A. A.|last2=Brooks|first2=Scott Edward|last3=Cumming|first3=Jeffrey Malcolm|title=Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico|journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232694905|date=2004|volume=283|pages=1–114|publisher=American Museum of Natural History|doi=10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:cotddo>2.0.co;2|hdl=2246/451}} (?)

}}

Chrysotus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.{{cite journal|last1=Wang|first1=M.|last2=Yang|first2=D.|last3=Grootaert|first3=P.|title=New species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from China|journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie|date=2008|volume=78|pages=251–257}} It is one of the largest genera in the subfamily Diaphorinae, with more than 460 species.{{cite journal|last1=Wei|first1=Lianmeng|first2=Lei|last2=Zhang|last3=Zhou|first3=Zhengxiang|year=2014|title=A review of the genus Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China with definition of papuanus species group|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281488612|journal=Oriental Insects|volume=48|issue=3–4|pages=187–298|doi=10.1080/00305316.2015.1005960|s2cid=82382090}}{{cite journal|first=Lianmeng|last=Wei|year=2018|title=A review of the genus Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China with definition of the leigongshanus species group|journal=Oriental Insects|volume=52|issue=sup1|pages=1–158|doi=10.1080/00305316.2017.1421338|s2cid=90584996}} However, the genus is probably paraphyletic, and possibly even polyphyletic, with respect to several related genera such as Achradocera, Falbouria and Lyroneurus.{{cite journal|last1=Capellari|first1=R.S.|last2=Amorim|first2=D.S.|year=2012|title=Systematic position of the monotypic Azorean genus Falbouria Dyte with notes on the definition of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290248612|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3489|pages=81–88|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3489.1.5}}