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Tenuopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Tenuopodinae, which was created by Igor Grichanov in 2018. The genus was previously placed in the subfamily Neurigoninae, and it also shares some features of Peloropeodinae and Sciapodinae. All species are known from the Afrotropical realm.

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It is catalogued under topics including Dolichopodidae, Dolichopodidae genera and Flies of Africa.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilyDolichopodidae

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Tenuopus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is the only genus in the subfamily Tenuopodinae, which was created by Igor Grichanov in 2018. The genus was previously placed in the subfamily Neurigoninae, and it also shares some features of Peloropeodinae and Sciapodinae. All species are known from the Afrotropical realm.

==Species== Tenuopus acrosticalis Curran, 1927 – Burundi, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda Tenuopus birketti Grichanov, 2019 – Mozambique, South Africa Tenuopus bururiensis Grichanov, 2018 – Burundi Tenuopus cognatus Parent, 1934 – South Africa Tenuopus comorensis Grichanov, 2019 – Comoros Tenuopus erroneus Parent, 1934 – South Africa Tenuopus frontalis Curran, 1927 – Congo-Brazzaville, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone Tenuopus fursovi Grichanov, 1996 – Liberia Tenuopus gorongosaensis Grichanov, 2018 – Mozambique Tenuopus guttatus Parent, 1939 – DR Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast Tenuopus kononenkoi Grichanov, 1996 – Uganda Tenuopus kirkspriggsi Grichanov, 2018 – Burundi Tenuopus kylei Grichanov, 2018 – South Africa Tenuopus lomholdti Grichanov, 2018 – Tanzania Tenuopus maculatus Parent, 1931 – Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania Tenuopus makarovi Grichanov, 2021 – Tanzania Tenuopus ntchisi Grichanov, 2000 – Malawi Tenuopus shcherbakovi Grichanov, 1996 – Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda Tenuopus soderlundi Grichanov, 2018 – South Africa Tenuopus taitensis Grichanov, 2000 – Kenya Tenuopus unicolor (Becker, 1914) – DR Congo, Kenya Tenuopus zverevi Grichanov, 1996 – DR Congo

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