Ceroptera
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{about|the fly genus|the genus of pterosaurs|Ceoptera}}
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| taxon = Ceroptera
| authority = Macquart, 1835{{cite book|last1=Macquart1835|first1=P. J. M.|title=Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome deuxieme.|publisher=Roret|location=Paris|pages=710, 12 pl}}
| synonyms = *Pseudosphaerocera Strobl, 1902{{cite journal|last1=Strobl|first1=Pater Gabriel|title=Novi prilozi fauny diptera balkanskog poluostrova. [New additions to the fauna of Balkan peninsula]|journal=Glasnik Zemaljskog Muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini, Sarajevo|date=1902|volume=14|pages=461–517}}
- Trichocypsela Villeneuve, 1916{{cite journal|last1=Villeneuve|first1=Joseph Th.|title=Descriptions de Borboridae africaines nouveaux (Dipt.)|journal=Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France|location=Paris|date=1916|volume=41|pages=37–42|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2165907#page/57/mode/1up|accessdate=24 October 2017}}
- Trychocypsela Vanschuytbroeck, 1951{{cite journal|last1=Vanschuytbroeck|first1=P.|title=Contribution a l'Ètude des Sphaeroceridae africains (Diptera, Acalyptratae) (2me note)|journal=Bulletin. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles|date=1951|volume=27|issue=33|pages=1–16}}
| type_species = Borborus rufitarsis
| type_species_authority = Meigen, 1830
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Ceroptera is a genus of flies belonging to the family of the 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
- C. aharonii Duda, 1938{{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=Oswald|editor1-last=Lindner|editor1-first=E.|title=Sphaeroceridae (Cypselidae)|journal=Die Fliegen der Paläarktischen Region|date=1938|volume=6|issue=57|pages=1–182|publisher=E. Schweizerbartísche Verlagsbuchhandlung|location=Stuttgart}}
- C. algira (Villeneuve, 1916)
- C. alluaudi (Villeneuve, 1917){{cite journal|last1=Villeneuve|first1=Joseph Th.|title=Description d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Cypselidae (Borboridae) (Dipt.)|journal=Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France|location=Paris|date=1917|volume=1917|pages=139–144|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8243942#page/173/mode/1up|accessdate=24 October 2017}}
- C. brincki Hackman, 1965{{cite journal|last1=Hackman|first1=W.|title=Diptera (Brachycera): Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae)|journal=South African Animal Life, Lund|date=1965|volume=11|pages=485–503}}
- C. catharsii Richards, 1953{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Two new African species of Ceroptera Meigen (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B|date=1953|volume=22|pages=5–8}}
- C. crispa (Duda, 1925){{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=Oswald|title=Die außereuropäischen Arten der Gattung Leptocera Olivier - Limosina Macquart (Dipteren) mit Berücksichtigung der europäischen Arten|journal=Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, Abteilung A|date=1925|volume=90|issue=(11)(1924|pages=5–21|url=http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Archiv-Naturgeschichte_90A_11_0001-0215.pdf|accessdate=21 October 2017}}
- C. ealensis Vanschuytbroeck, 1951
- C. equitans (Collin, 1910){{cite journal|last1=Collin|first1=James Edward|title=A new species of the dipterous genus Limosina, Macq. (Borboridae), from Ceylon, with habits similar to those of L. sacra, Meig|journal=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|date=1910|volume=21|pages=275–279|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36493#page/363/mode/1up|accessdate=4 November 2017}}
- C. femorata Hackman, 1965
- C. flava Vanschuytbroeck, 1959{{cite journal|last1=Vanschuytbroeck|first1=P.|title=Sphaerocerinae, Limosinae, Ceropterinae (Diptera, Ephydroidea)|journal=Parc National de la Garamba, Mission H. De Saeger (1949-52), Bruxelles|date=1959|volume=17|issue=2|pages=15–85}}
- C. ghanensis 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}}
- C. ghesquierei Vanschuytbroeck, 1951
- C. intermedia Hackman, 1965
- C. lacteipennis (Villeneuve, 1916)
- C. longicauda Marshall in Marshall & Montagnes, 1988{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Stephen A.|last2=Montagnes|first2=D. J. S.|title=Ceroptera longicauda, a second North American species of the kleptoparasitic genus Ceroptera Macquart (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|date=1988|volume=90|issue=2|pages=189–192|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16144607#page/199/mode/1up|accessdate=4 November 2017}}
- C. longiseta (Villeneuve, 1916)
- C. nasuta (Villeneuve, 1916)
- C. ndelelensis Vanschuytbroeck, 1959
- C. pelengensis Vanschuytbroeck, 1959
- C. rubricornis (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}}
- C. rudebecki Hackman, 1965
- C. rufitarsis (Meigen, 1830)
- C. setigera Vanschuytbroeck, 1945{{cite journal|last1=Vanschuytbroeck|first1=P|title=Contribution à l'étude du genre Ceroptera Macquart (Diptera,Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Bulletin du Musée royal d'Histoire naturelle de Belgique|date=1945|volume=21|pages=1–12|issue=21}}
- C. sivinskii Marshall, 1983{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Stephen A.|title=Ceroptera sivinskii, a new species of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) in a genus new to North America, associated with scarab beetles in southwestern United States|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|date=1983|volume=85|pages=139–143|issue=1|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16179548#page/155/mode/1up|accessdate=4 November 2017}}
- C. ungulata Hackman, 1965