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Keirosoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:	Diaphorinae
Genus:	Keirosoma Van Duzee, 1929
Type species
Keirosoma albicinctum Van Duzee, 1929

Keirosoma is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is distributed in the New World. The subfamily has variously been placed in the Rhaphiinae, Diaphorinae or Sympycninae. According to Scott E. Brooks in 2005, the systematic position of the genus is still uncertain, though a possible relationship with Pseudohercostomus has been suggested.

Species

• Keirosoma albicinctum Van Duzee, 1929 – Panama, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico
• Keirosoma slossonae Van Duzee, 1933 – Florida, Maryland

References

1. ^ Van Duzee, M. C. (1929). "Tropical American Diptera or two-winged flies of the family Dolichopodidae from Central and South America". Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 74 (10): 1–64, 2 pls. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.74-2755.1. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
2. Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN 9787811171020.
3. Robinson, H. (1970). "Family Dolichopodidae". A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States (40). Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia: 1–92.
4. Brooks, Scott E. (2005). "Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 857: 1–158. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1.
5. Van Duzee, Millard Carr (1933). "New American Dolichopidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (655). New York City: The American Museum of Natural History: 1–20. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

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