Dolichophorus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.

It includes eight species distributed in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical realms.

The adults have a metallic green, green-black or blue-black body coloring, with some pruinescence.

[3][4] This was confirmed by a 2011 molecular phylogenetic analysis of Medetera and related genera.

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