Syntormon pallipes

{{short description|Species of fly}}

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| image = Syntormon pallipes, Sealand Ranges, North Wales, May 2012 (16276110703).jpg

| image_caption = Syntormon pallipes North Wales

| genus = Syntormon

| species = pallipes

| authority = (Fabricius, 1794)

| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|last=Grichanov|first=I. Ya.|year=2001|title=Afrotropical Syntormon Loew and new synonyms in the genus Rhaphium Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=http://grichanov.aiq.ru/syntormon.html|journal=International Journal of Dipterological Research|volume=12|issue=4|pages=181–194}}{{cite journal|last1=Maslova|first1=O. O.|last2=Negrobov|first2=O. P.|last3=Selivanova|first3=O. V.|year=2019|title=New data on distribution and variability of adult Syntormon pallipes (Fabricius, 1794) (Dolichopodidae, Diptera)|url=https://azjournal.ru/index.php/azjournal/article/view/91/308|journal=Amurian Zoological Journal|volume=11|issue=2|pages=116–118|doi=10.33910/2686-9519-2019-11-2-116-118|doi-access=free}}

| synonyms =

• Musca pallipes Fabricius, 1794
• Rhaphium hamatus Zetterstedt, 1843
• Syntormon pallipes var. immaculatus Santos Abreu, 1929
• ?Syntormon pallipes var. uncitarsis Becker, 1902

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Syntormon pallipes is a species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae. It is found in the Palearctic,Fauna EuropaeaBei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Parts I, II. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. {{ISBN|81-205-0080-6}} {{ISBN|81-205-0081-4}}Parent, O. (1938) Diptères Dolichopodidae. Paris: Éditions Faune de France 35 . 720 p., 1. 002 fig. [http://faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/O.PARENT(FdeFr35)Dipt.Dolochopodidae.pdf Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf] Oriental and Afrotropical realms. In 2019, the mitochondrial genome of S. pallipes was sequenced, as the first representative of the subfamily Sympycninae.{{cite journal|last1=Hou|first=P.|last2=Qilemoge|last3=Li|first3=X.|last4=Yang|first4=D.|year=2019|title=The mitochondrial genome of Syntormon pallipes (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=Mitochondrial DNA Part B|volume=4|issue=1|pages=1605–1606|doi=10.1080/23802359.2019.1604093|doi-access=free}}

Syntormon pseudospicatus is sometimes treated as a synonym of S. pallipes, but they are argued by Drake (2020) to be distinct species.{{cite journal|last=Drake|first1=C.M.|year=2020|title=The identity of Syntormon pseudospicatum Strobl (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359760272|journal=Dipterists Digest |series=Second Series |volume=27|pages=61–82}}

A subspecies named Syntormon pallipes longistylus was described by Igor Grichanov from Madagascar in 2001. In 2020, it was determined that this subspecies was in fact a distinct species, Syntormon longistylus.{{cite journal|last=Grichanov|first=I. Ya.|year=2020|title=Afrotropical Dolichopodoidae (Diptera) catalogue: Changes and corrections|url=https://www.azjournal.ru/index.php/azjournal/article/view/604/531|journal=Amurian Zoological Journal|volume=12|issue=4|pages=406–411|doi=10.33910/2686-9519-2020-12-4-406-411|doi-access=free}}