Sciara flavipes Meigen, 1804: 98 –99.
Sciara flavipes Meigen: Panzer, 1806–1809: 15; Meigen, 1818: 283.
Sciara flavipes Panzer: Winnertz, 1867: 133–134.
Sciara (Phorodonta) flavipes Meigen: Lengersdorf, 1929: 59.
Phorodonta flavipes (Meigen): Edwards, 1925: 534; Lengersdorf, 1928–1930: 8; Frey, 1948: 46, 73.
Phytosciara (Phorodonta) flavipes (Meigen): Antonova, 1977: 112.
Phytosciara flavipes (Meigen): Freeman, 1983: 32, 57.
Phytosciara (Dolichosciara) flavipes (Meigen): Tuomikoski, 1960: 107, 109 – 110; Gerbachevskaja, 1969: 342–343; Menzel, Mohrig & Groth, 1990: 318–319; Mohrig & Menzel, 1994: 179, 183, 184, 186 – 189; Menzel & Mohrig, 2000: 440–442.
Phytosciara (Prosciara) flavipes (Meigen): Menzel, 1992 a: 245; Menzel, 1992 b: 269.
Diagnosis. The species is characterized by its subparallel-sided gonostylus with a slightly inflated apex and 5–8 megasetae located apicomesially, and a small setose intercoxal lobe on the hypopygium.
Distribution. China (Taiwan, Fig. 11); Europe, Greenland, Algeria, Novaya Zemlya, Russian Far East, North Korea, Nepal, India, Thailand, USA (California) (Mohrig & Menzel, 1994).