Description: Staeger (1842: 36).
Type specimens. Dolichopus lepidus was described based on a single male specimen.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE male labelled: “ɗ Lerso [Lersoen]/ St. [Staeger]”; “Coll. Staeger”; “ Lepidus / Stag.” (ZMUC).
Type locality. “Leersoen i Slutningen” [Lersoen nearby Copenhagen (Denmark)] (Staeger 1842).