Vetimicrotes

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Vetimicrotes

| authority = Dyte, 1980{{cite journal|last1=Dyte|first1=C. E.|title=Some replacement names in the Dolichopodidae (Diptera).|journal=Ent. Scand|date=1980|volume=11|issue=2|pages=223–224|doi=10.1163/187631280X00545}}

| type_species = Microtes mediterraneus

| type_species_authority = Becker, 1918{{cite journal|last1=Becker|first1=Theodor|title=Dipterologische Studien. Dolichopodidae Dritter Teil|journal=Nova Acta der Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher|date=1918|volume=104|pages=35–214}}

| synonyms = Microtes Becker, 1918
(nec Scudder, 1900)

}}

Vetimicrotes 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 is distributed in the Palaearctic realm. The genus was originally named Microtes by Theodor Becker in 1918. Afterwards, the name was found to be preoccupied by the grasshopper genus Microtes (Scudder, 1900), so it was renamed to Vetimicrotes by C. E. Dyte in 1980.

The genus was originally included in the subfamily Sympycninae, and it has since been placed either in the Dolichopodidae or Peloropeodinae. A cladistic analysis of Dolichopodinae by Scott E. Brooks in 2005 indicated that Vetimicrotes did not belong to it, though the systematic position of the genus within the family Dolichopodidae was still unclear.{{cite journal|first=Scott E.|last=Brooks|year=2005|title=Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z00857f.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume=857|pages=1–158|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1}}