Aptilotus

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Aptilotus

| authority = Mik, 1898{{cite journal|last1=Mik|first1=Josef|title=Altes und neues über Dipteren.|journal=Wiener Entomologische Zeitung|volume=17|pages=196–219|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12109787#page/242/mode/1up|accessdate=22 October 2017|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.3129|doi-access=free}}

| synonyms = *Aptitolus Hackman, 1969{{cite journal|last1=Hackman|first1=W|title=A review of the zoogeography and classification of the Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Diptera)|journal=Notulae Entomologicae|date=1969|volume=49|pages=193–210}}

  • Americaptilotus Richards, 1951{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Brachypterous Sphaeroceridae|journal=British Museum (Natural History) Ruwenzori Expedition, 1934-1935|date=1951|volume=2|issue=8|pages=829–851}}
  • Carolinaptera Richards, 1967{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=A new genus of wingless N. American Sphaerocerid flies|journal=Journal of Natural History|date=1967|volume=1|issue=3|pages=373–376|doi=10.1080/00222936700770351}}
  • Minocellina Papp, 1981{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title=Two new genera of the apterous and subapterous Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from India|journal=Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|date=1981|volume=27|pages=381–388}}
  • Canarisina Roháček, 1983{{cite journal|last1=Roháček|first1=Jindřich|title=A monograph and re-classification of the previous genus Limosina Macquart (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) of Europe. Part II|journal=Beiträge zur Entomologie, Berlin|date=1983|volume=33|pages=3–195|url=http://www.contributions-to-entomology.org/index.php/beitraege_entomologie/article/view/1184/1183|accessdate=23 October 2017}}
  • Roubalia Vimmer, 1931
  • Canarisina Roháček, 1982

| type_species = Aptilotus paradoxus

| type_species_authority = Mik, 1898

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Aptilotus is a genus of flies belonging to the family Lesser Dung flies.{{cite book|last1=Rohček|first1=Jindřich|last2=Marshall|first2=Stephen A.|last3=Norrbom|first3=Allen L.|last4=Buck|first4=Matthias|last5=Quiros|first5=Dora Isabel|last6=Smith|first6=Ian|editor1-last=Rohček|editor1-first=Jindřich|title=World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|date=2001|publisher=Slezské Zemské Muzeum|location=Opava|isbn=978-8086224213|pages=1–414|url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/catalog.htm|accessdate=3 September 2017}}{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Stephen A.|last2=Roháček|first2=Jindřich|last3=Dong|first3=Hui|last4=Buck|first4=Matthias|title=The state of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera: Acalyptratae): a world catalog update covering the years 2000–2010, with new generic synonymy, new combinations, and new distributions|journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae|date=2011|volume=51|issue=1|pages=217–298|url=http://www.aemnp.eu/PDF/51_1/51_1_217.pdf|accessdate=24 October 2017|location=Pragae|issn=0374-1036}}

Species

  • A. anapterus (Papp & Roháček, 1981){{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|last2=Roháček|first2=Jindřich|title=New species of the Paralimosina beckeri-group from the Canary Is. (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Folia Entomologica Hungarica|date=1981|volume=57|issue=2|pages=143–154}}
  • A. appendix Papp, 1991{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=L|title=Oriental Limosininae: new species and records (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Acta Zoologica Hungarica|date=1991|volume=37|pages=225–251}}
  • A. avolans (Roháček & Papp, 1983){{cite journal|last1=Roháček|first1=Jindřich|last2=Papp|first2=László|title=Another new species of the Paralimosina beckeri-group from the Canary Islands (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Folia Entomologica Hungarica|date=1983|volume=44|issue=1|pages=147–152}}
  • A. beckeri (Duda, 1918){{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=Oswald|title=Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Limosina Macquart (Dipteren)|journal=Abhandlungen der k.k. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien|date=1918|volume=10|issue=1|pages=1–240}}
  • A. besucheti (Papp, 1981)
  • A. binotatus Marshall in Marshall & Smith, 1990{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Sephen A.|last2=Smith|first2=I. P.|title=A review of the North American species of Aptilotus, with descriptions of new species from North America and Nepal (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Canadian Journal of Zoology|date=1990|volume=68|issue=11|pages=2338–2351|doi=10.1139/z90-325}}
  • A. borealis Malloch, 1913{{cite journal|last1=Malloch|first1=John Russell|title=Descriptions of new species of American flies of the family Borboridae|journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum|date=1913|volume=44|issue=1958|pages=361–372|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15706453#page/493/mode/1up|accessdate=17 September 2017|location=Washington|doi=10.5479/si.00963801.44-1958.361|hdl=2027/hvd.32044107190845}}
  • A. carbonicolor (Richards, 1959){{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Journey to High Simien (Northern Ethiopia), 1952-53: Diptera, Sphaeroceridae|journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology|date=1959|volume=44|issue=296|pages=180–184|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1959.tb01605.x}}
  • A. concavus (Spuler, 1925){{cite journal|last1=Spuler|first1=Anthony|title=North American species of the subgenus Scotophilella Duda (Diptera, Borboridae)|journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society|date=1925|volume=33|pages=70–84|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50783219#page/98/mode/1up|accessdate=17 September 2017}}
  • A. cruciatus Marshall, 1983{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Sephen A.|title=A revision of the genus Aptilotus Mik in North America (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Canadian Journal of Zoology|date=1983|volume=61|issue=8|pages=1910–1924|doi=10.1139/z83-248}}
  • A. franzi (Papp & Roháček, 1981)
  • A. glabrifrons Marshall in Marshall & Smith, 1990
  • A. gomerensis (Papp & Roháček, 1981)
  • A. longinervis Hayashi, 1989{{cite journal|last1=Hayashi|first1=T|title=A new species of the genus Aptilotus Mik, 1898 (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from Japan|journal=Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology|date=1989|volume=40|issue=4|pages=303–306|doi=10.7601/mez.40.303|doi-access=free}}
  • A. luctuosus (Spuler, 1925)
  • A. luteoscapus Marshall, 1983
  • A. martini Wheeler & Marshall, 1989{{cite journal|last1=Wheeler|first1= T. A.|last2=Marshall|first2=Sephen A|title=Aptilotus martini, a new species of the Aptilotus beckeri group (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from caves in the Canary Islands|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|date=1989|volume=91|pages=611–614|issue=4|url=http://www.azoresbioportal.angra.uac.pt/files/publicacoes_Wheeler1989_AptilotusMartiniNewSpeciesAptilotusBackerGroupCavesCanaryIslands.pdf|accessdate=30 October 2017}}
  • A. nigrimera Marshall, 1997{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Sephen A.|title=A first record of Aptilotus Mik (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from the Neotropical Region, with the description of three new wingless species of the Aptilotus paradoxus group from high elevations in Costa Rica|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|date=1997|volume=99|pages=505–512}}
  • A. nigriphallus Marshall in Marshall & Smith, 1990
  • A. nigriscapus Marshall, 1983
  • A. nigritibia Marshall, 1997
  • A. paradoxus Mik, 1898
  • A. parvipennis (Spuler, 1924){{cite journal|last1=Spuler|first1=A|title=North American species of the subgenera Opacifrons Duda and Pteremis Rondani of the genus Leptocera Olivier (Diptera, Borboridae)|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |date=1924|volume=31|issue=3–4|pages=121–135|url=http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1924/019606.pdf|accessdate=30 October 2017|doi=10.1155/1924/19606|doi-access=free}}
  • A. pilifemoratus (Papp & Roháček, 1981)
  • A. pogophallus Marshall in Marshall & Smith, 1990
  • A. politus (Williston, 1893){{cite journal|last1=Williston|first1=S. W.|title=List of Diptera of the Death Valley Expedition|journal=North American Fauna|date=1893|volume=7|pages=253–259}}
  • A. pulex (Richards, 1967)
  • A. rufiscapus Marshall in Marshall & Smith, 1990
  • A. spatulatus Marshall, 1983
  • A. spinistylus Marshall in Marshall & Smith, 1990
  • A. thaii (Papp, 1989){{cite journal|last1=Papp |first1=László|title=A review of the Afrotropical species of Norrbomia gen.n. (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae, Copromyzini)|journal=Acta Zoologica Hungarica|date=1988|volume=34|pages=393–408}}
  • A. zumbadoi Marshall, 1997

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