Chespiritos
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Taxobox
| image =
| image_caption =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Diptera
| familia = Sphaeroceridae
| subfamilia = Limosininae
| genus = Chespiritos
| synonyms =
| type_species = Chespiritos sindecimus
| type_species_authority = Marshall, 2000
}}
Chespiritos is a genus of flies of mostly neotropical distribution, belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae (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=Roháček|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|format=PDF|issn=0374-1036}}
Species
- C. anguineus {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Bolivia){{cite journal|last1=Kuwahara |first1=G.K. |last2=Marshall |first2=S.A. |date=20 April 2020 |title=A revision of the Neotropical genus Chespiritos (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae) |journal=Eur. J. Entomol. |volume=117 |pages=164–189 |doi=10.14411/eje.2020.019 |doi-access=free}}
- C. attenboroughi {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Argentina; named after David Attenborough)
- C. balrogiformis {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Peru; named after Balrogs)
- C. bolanosi {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Mexico; named after Roberto Gómez Bolaños)
- C. calceus {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Peru)
- C. chicobrazos {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Costa Rica)
- C. coronatus {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Trinidad)
- C. dolabratus {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Costa Rica)
- C. elephantus {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Ecuador, Peru)
- C. extendido {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela)
- C. ganchopico {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Tobago)
- C. gladiator {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Costa Rica)
- C. hojagrande {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Costa Rica, Mexico)
- C. jamaicensis {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Jamaica)
- C. lepustergum {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Costa Rica, Venezuela)
- C. metroidiformis {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Costa Rica; named after Metroids)
- C. paraiso {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Dominican Republic)
- C. peckorum {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Ecuador)
- C. pervadens {{small|Roháček & Buck, 2003}} (Brazil and the Canary Islands){{cite journal|last1=Roháček|first1=Jindřich|last2=Buck|first2=Matthias|title=Chespiritos pervadens spec. nov. (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), a remarkable species with disjunct Neotropical-Macaronesian distribution.|journal=Studia Dipterologica|date=2003|volume=10|issue=1|pages=43–50}}
- C. sindecimus {{small|Marshall, 2000}} (Costa Rica)
- C. ventrisetis {{small|Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020}} (Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela)
References
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Category:Diptera of South America