New species of Cryptophleps Lichtwardt (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with a key to the Afrotropical and Palaearctic species of the genus Author Grichanov, Igor Ya. text Zootaxa 2015 4007 2 259 266 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.2.8 e1a28c22-847d-4cd4-b39b-d7eb0ab5e11a 1175-5326 238954 28DCCD75-1334-44C8-AF2B-B39FD85EBE84 Cryptophleps Lichtwardt Cryptophleps Lichtwardt, 1898: 491 . Type species: Cryptophleps kerteszi Lichtwardt, 1898 (monotypy). Etymology . From Greek: kryptós, phléps (with hidden veins); gender feminine. Diagnosis . This genus is defined (together with cosmopolitan Asyndetus Loew, 1869 ) by the synapomorphy of the broken and displaced vein M which readily distinguishes both genera from the related and probably ancestral cosmopolitan genus Diaphorus Meigen, 1824 . Small species, body length 1.1–2.5 mm ; body with bristles yellow (Afrotropical and some Palaearctic species), sometimes partly black or almost entirely black (Australasian and Seychelles species); face broad ( C. kerteszi and Afrotropical species), moderately broad ( Seychelles species) or linear (Australasian species); costa not extending beyond tip of R4+5; distal vein M gently sinuate or broken or weakened, with distal section often displaced; vein R4+5 ending along distal anterior wing margin, well before wing apex; distal parts of R4+5 and M1+2 strongly diverging; acrostichals absent or microscopic; usually 4 strong dorsocentral setae present; male segment 8 with or without strong setae. Remarks . A thorough re-description of all the characters can be found in Grootaert & Meuffels (1987) and Bickel (2005) , which was based mainly on Australasian species.