Asioligochaetus is a disputed genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Asioligochaetus vlasovi, which is distributed in Central Asia. Asioligochaetus was originally proposed as a subgenus of Medetera by Oleg Negrobov in 1966. In Bickel (1985)'s revision of the Nearctic Medetera species, Asioligochaetus was treated as a synonym of Medetera, with the only species (M. vlasovi) included as a member of the petulca species group.[1] Alternatively, because of its peculiar combination of characters, Asioligochaetus was raised to genus rank by Igor Grichanov in 2009.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Medeterinae |
| Tribe: | Medeterini |
| Genus: | Asioligochaetus Negrobov, 1966 |
| Species: | A. vlasovi
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| Binomial name | |
| Asioligochaetus vlasovi (Stackelberg, 1937)
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| Synonyms | |
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Oligochaetus vlasovi Stackelberg, 1937 | |
References
edit- ^ Bickel, D.J. (1985). "A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Technical Bulletin. Technical bulletin 1692 (1692). United States Department of Agriculture: 1–109. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.309598. ISSN 0082-9811.
- ^ Grichanov, I. Ya. (2009). "Review of the genus Dolichophorus Lichtward, 1902 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae)" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (201): 1–16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-08-12. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
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