Helichochaetus

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

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| image = Helichochaetus discifer male.jpg

| image_caption = Male Helichochaetus discifer

| genus = Helichochaetus

| species = discifer

| display_parents = 3

| parent_authority = Parent, 1933{{cite journal|last1=Parent|first1=O.|title=Étude monographique sur les Diptères Dolichopodides de Nouvelle Zélande|journal=Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles|date=1933|volume=53|pages=325–441}}

| authority = Parent, 1933

}}

Helichochaetus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.{{cite book|last1=Yang|first1=D.|last2=Zhu|first2=Y.|last3=Wang|first3=M.|last4=Zhang|first4=L.|title=World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).|date=2006|publisher=China Agricultural University Press|location=Beijing|isbn=9787811171020|pages=1–704}} It contains only one species, Helichochaetus discifer, and is found in New Zealand.