Saccopheronta

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Taxobox

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Diptera

| subordo = Brachycera

| infraordo = Asilomorpha

| superfamilia = Empidoidea

| familia = Dolichopodidae

| subfamilia = Medeterinae

| genus = Saccopheronta

| genus_authority = Becker, 1914{{cite journal|last1=Becker|first1=T.|title=Diptères nouveaux récoltés par MM. Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique orientale.|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France|date=1914|volume=83|pages=120–130|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100097#page/128/mode/1up|accessdate=17 December 2015}}

| type_species = Saccopheronta nudipes

| type_species_authority = Becker, 1914

}}

Saccopheronta is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is considered a synonym of Medetera by some authors (with its species treated as the Medetera aberrans group),{{cite journal|last=Bickel|first=D.J.|year=1985|title=A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=Technical Bulletin|series=Technical bulletin 1692 |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=Naglis|first1=S.|last2=Bickel|first2=D. J.|year=2012|title=Medetera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) of Sri Lanka|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3188|issue=1|pages=55–63|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3188.1.4|s2cid=3942755}} and a valid genus by others.{{cite journal|last1=Negrobov|first1=O.P.|last2=Vanschuytbroeck|first2=P.|last3=Grichanov|first3=I.Ya|year=1981|title=The species of the genus Saccopheronta (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)|url=http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletins-de-linstitut-royal-des-sciences-naturelles-de-belgique-entomologie/53-1981/entomo53-art4.pdf|journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie|volume=53|issue=4|pages=1–11}}{{cite journal|last=Grichanov|first=I.Ya.|year=1997|title=Four new species of Saccopheronta Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tropical Africa with notes on the world fauna of the genus|url=http://grichanov.aiq.ru/SACCOPHE.htm|journal=International Journal of Dipterological Research|volume=8|issue=3|pages=123–134}}