VIII. simplicipes group No spinules at ventral base of fore basitarsus. Legs poorly bristled; fore femur ventrally near base with three thin, hair-like bristles. Face broad. Third antennal segment pointed, more than two times as long as deep. Costa with a distinct short swelling from tip of r1 to halfway between tips of r1 and r2+3. Hypopygium rather large, oblique to the axis of the abdomen. Surstyli separated; ventral surstylus short, triangular, bearing only a few short hairlets; dorsal surstylus longer and broader, bearing a row of three long bristles. Hypandrium not surpassing surstyli. Known distribution. Java, Sulawesi, Thailand. Species included. Teuchophorus simplicipes de Meijere, 1916.

Published as part of Meuffels, Henk & Grootaert, Patrick, 2004, The genus Teuchophorus in South-East Asia and New Guinea, description of new species, species-groups and their phylogeny (Insecta, Diptera, Dolichopodidae), pp. 143-258 in Journal of Natural History 38 (2) on page 194, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000007507, http://zenodo.org/record/10097603