Dolichophorus

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Dolichophorus

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Lichtwardt, 1902{{cite journal|last1=Lichtwardt|first1=B.|title=Neue ungarische Dolichopodiden (Diptera)|journal=Természetrajzi füzetek |date=1902 |volume=25 |pages=197–200 |url= http://epa.niif.hu/02300/02370/00061/pdf/EPA02370_termszetrajzif25magy_01-02_197-200.pdf|accessdate=2 October 2015}}

| type_species = Dolichophorus kerteszi

| type_species_authority = Lichtwardt, 1902

}}

Dolichophorus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It includes eight species distributed in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical realms. The adults have a metallic green, green-black or blue-black body coloring, with some pruinescence.{{cite journal|first=I. Ya.|last=Grichanov|year=2009|title=Review of the genus Dolichophorus Lichtward, 1902 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae)|url=https://www.biosoil.ru/files/fscpublications/fee/00000286.pdf|journal=Far Eastern Entomologist|issue=201|pages=1–16}}

Revisions of the genus Medetera by Bickel in 1985 and 1987 suggested that Dolichophorus is derived from Medetera (rendering Medetera paraphyletic) and is closely related to the Medetera aberrans and Medetera melanesiana species groups.{{cite journal|last=Bickel|first=D.J.|year=1985|title=A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=Technical Bulletin|publisher=United States Department of Agriculture|issue=1692|pages=1–109|doi=10.22004/ag.econ.309598|doi-access=free|issn=0082-9811}}{{cite journal|last1=Bickel|first1=Daniel J.|title=A revision of the Oriental and Australian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).|journal=Records of the Australian Museum|date=1987|volume=39|issue=4|pages=195–259|url=http://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/17676/170_complete.pdf|access-date=22 December 2016|publisher=Australian Museum|location=Sydney|issn=0067-1975|doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.170|archive-date=12 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512185332/https://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/17676/170_complete.pdf|url-status=dead}} This was confirmed by a 2011 molecular phylogenetic analysis of Medetera and related genera.{{cite journal|last1=Pollet|first1=M.|last2=Germann|first2=C.|last3=Bernasconi|first3=M.V.|year=2011|title=Phylogenetic analyses using molecular markers reveal ecological lineages in Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=The Canadian Entomologist|volume=143|issue=6 |pages=662–673|doi=10.4039/n11-031|s2cid=85695138 |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/56054/1/11_Pol_et_al_Can.pdf }}