Prosystenus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, from the Middle Eocene of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. It contains only one species, Prosystenus zherichini, described from Sakhalin amber. It is the oldest confirmed representative of the Dolichopodidae in its strict sense, excluding the subfamilies Microphorinae and Parathalassiinae.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Genus: | †Prosystenus Negrobov, 1976[1] |
| Species: | †P. zherichini
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| †Prosystenus zherichini Negrobov, 1976[1]
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References edit
- ^ a b Negrobov, O. P. (1976). "A New Genus of the Family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from the Paleogene Retinites of the Sea of Okhotsk". Paleontological Journal. 10 (4): 495–498.
- ^ Pollet, M.A.A.; Brooks, S.E. (2008). "Long-Legged Flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". In Capinera, J.L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_2087.
Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.
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