Template:Geller-Grimm & Hradsky, 2003

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Eight Palaearctic species of the genus Oligopogon Loew, 1847 are recognised, five of them being described as new: O. anatolicus spec. nov., O. creticus spec. nov., O. graecus spec. nov., O. londti spec. nov., and O. rufus spec. nov. A key for their identification and comments on their distribution are provided. The systematic position of the genus is briefly discussed. O. nitidus Efflatoun, 1937 is recorded from Syria for the first time.