Archiceroptera

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Diptera

| familia = Sphaeroceridae

| subfamilia = Limosininae

| genus = Archiceroptera

| genus_authority = Papp, 1977{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title= A contribution to the knowledge of species of the subfamily Ceropterinae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal= Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|url=http://actazool.nhmus.hu/60/2/ActaZH_2014_Vol_60_2_109.pdf|accessdate=22 October 2017|volume=23|issue=2|pages=371–385}}

| synonyms =

| type_species = Archiceroptera mahunkai

| type_species_authority = Papp, 1977

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Archiceroptera 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}}

Species

  • A. mahunkai Papp, 1977
  • A. venezolana (Richards, 1963){{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Sphaerocerid flies from South and Central America in the collection of the California Academy of Sciences (Diptera)|journal=Pan-Pacific Entomologist|date=1963|volume=39|issue=4|pages=231–246|publisher=The Pacific Coast Entomological Society|location=San Francisco|issn=0031-0603}}

References