Plagioneurus is a genus of long-legged flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Plagioneurus univittatus, and is the only member of the subfamily Plagioneurinae. The range of P. univittatus spans from the Eastern United States south to South America.
Plagioneurus is a genus of long-legged flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It contains only one species, Plagioneurus univittatus, and is the only member of the subfamily Plagioneurinae. The range of P. univittatus spans from the Eastern United States south to South America.
The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek words (, 'oblique') and (, 'nerve'), referring to the unusual angle of the last part of the medial wing vein M, which converges with radial vein R4+5.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).