The subfamily Dolichopodinae is divided into two tribes, Dolichopodini and Tachytrechini, in Negrobov (1986, 1991).[6][7] In Brooks (2005)'s phylogenetic analysis of the subfamily, these tribes are not supported, and four informal generic groups are instead recognised.[8]
The following list of genera generally follows Grichanov (2017):[9]
Several extinct genera were described from Eocene amber near Fushun, China by You-chong Hong in 2002, but all except Leptodolichopodites and Fushuniregis (formerly Wangia) are considered unavailable names because no type repositories were specified for any of the new species described in Hong's work:[31]
^Grichanov, I. Ya (1999). A check list of Genera of the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Studia Dipterologica. pp. 327–332pp.
^D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M. (1978). Dolichopodidae (Diptera, Orthorrhapha, Brachycera) (Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9/5). London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 90 pp.
^Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN9787811171020.
^Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott Edward; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 283. American Museum of Natural History: 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:cotddo>2.0.co;2. hdl:2246/451. S2CID84167833.
^Harmston, F. C. (1966). "Eleven new Dolichopus from North America (Dolichopodidae: Diptera)". Entomological News. 77 (1): 1–17.
^ abYang, Ding; Saigusa, Toyohei; Masunaga, Kazuhiro (2001). "Two new genera and four new species of Dolichopodinae from China and Nepal (Diptera: :Empidoidea: Dolichopodidae)". Entomological Science. 4 (2): 175–184.
^Parent, O. (1933). "Etude sur les Dipteres Dolichopodies du Musee du Congo (Tervueren)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 24. Bruxelle: 1–49.
^Stackelberg, A. A. (1931). "Dolichopodidae der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition". Archiv für Hydrobiologie. Supplementband 8: 771–782.
^Yang, D.; Saigusa, T. (2001). "New and little known species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from China (XI)". Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. Entomol. 71: 237–256.
^ abcZhang, L.-L; Yang, D. (2005). "A study on the phylogeny of Dolichopodinae from the Palaearctic and Oriental realms, with descriptions of three new genera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)". Acta Zootaxomica Sinica. 30: 180–190.
^Dyte, C. E. (1975). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Delfinado, M.D.; Hardy, D.E. (eds.). Catalogue of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Vol. 2. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii. pp. 212–258.
^ abcdefGrichanov, I. Y. (2006). "New genera and new combinations for afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Dolichopodidae, Diptera)". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 17: 23–34.