Subgenus Dasyphora s.s. Dasyphora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 409 (as genus). Type species: Musca agilis Meigen sensu Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [misidentification, = Musca pratorum Meigen, 1826]. Diagnosis. Colouration metallic purplish-blue to blackish-blue; wing without maculae. Eye densely setulose. Female with the parafrons entirely setulose or only on upper half. Dorsocentrals 3+4. Prosternum setulose or bare. Wing with basal portion of stem-vein setulose or not dorsally; R1 setulose dorsally and ventrally. First abdominal sternite widely setulose. Distribution (17 species). Oriental and Palaearctic. References. Oriental species: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998); Palaearctic: Hennig (1963b, 1964a), Peris and Llorente (1963), Zimin and Elberg (1988), Xue and Chao (1998), Gregor et al. (2002).

Published as part of Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, pp. 1-24 in Zootaxa 1976 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185153