Limosininae
{{Short description|Subfamily of flies}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image=Limosina silvatica female, Harlech, North Wales, March 2012 (17482634382).jpg
|image_caption=Limosina silvatica
|taxon=Limosininae
|authority=Frey, 1921{{cite journal|last1=Frey|first1=R.|title=Studien über der Bau des Mundes der niederen Diptera Schizophora nebst Bemerkungen über die Systematik dieser Dipteren-Gruppe.|journal=Acta Societatis Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica |date=1921|volume=48|issue=3|pages=1–247|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/28237#page/239/mode/1up|accessdate=21 October 2017}}
|synonyms=*Leptocerinae Hendel, 1928{{cite book|last1=Hendel|first1=Friedrich Georg|title=Zweiflügler oder Diptera. II. Allgemeiner Teil. In Dahl, F. (ed.): Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile. Bd. 11|date=1928|publisher=G. Fischer Verlag|location=Jena|pages=1–135}}
- Ceropterinae Vanschuytbroeck, 1959{{cite journal|last1=Vanschuytbroeck|first1=P.|title=Sphaerocerinae, Limosinae, Ceropterinae (Diptera, Ephydroidea)|journal=Exploration Parc National de la Garamba. Mission H. De Saeger |date=1959|volume=17|issue=2|pages=15–85}}
|type_genus=Limosina
|type_genus_authority=Macquart, 1835{{cite book|last1=Macquart|first1=Justin Pierre Marie|title=Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome deuxieme |publisher=Roret|date=1835|location=Paris|pages=710, 12 pl}}
}}
Limosininae is a subfamily of flies belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae, 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}}
Genera
Genera include:
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- Acuminiseta 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 |series=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}}
- Afropterogramma Papp, 2008{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title=New genera of the Old World Limosininae (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|date=2008|volume=54(supplement 2)|pages=47–209|url=http://actazool.nhmus.hu/54/Suppl2/azh54_S2_Limos.pdf|accessdate=24 October 2017}}
- Aluligera 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}}
- Anatalanta Eaton, 1875{{cite journal|last1=Eaton|first1=A. E.|title=Breves dipterarum uniusque lepidopterarum insulae Kerguelensi indigenarum diagnoses|journal=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|date=1875|volume=12|pages= 58–61}}
- Anomioptera Schiner, 1868{{cite book|last1=Schiner|first1=J. R.|title=Diptera. In: Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil.|date=1868|volume=2|publisher=B. K. Gerold’s Sohn|location=Wien|pages=Pt. 1, vi + 388 pp}}
- Anommonia Schmitz, 1917{{cite journal|last1=Schmitz|first1=H.|title= Anommonia, eine neue myrmecophile Borboridengattung aus Kamerun|journal=Zoologische Mededelingen |location=Leiden |date=1917|volume=3|pages=121–126}}
- Apterobiroina Papp, 1979{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title= On apterous and reduced-winged forms of the family Drosophilidae, Ephydridae and Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|journal= Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|url=http://www.drosophila.jp/jdd/class/030709/03070947.pdf|accessdate=22 October 2017|volume=25|pages=357–374}}
- Apteromyia Vimmer, 1929{{cite journal|last1=Vimmer|first1=A.|title=Dvě nové bezkřídlé mouchy (čel. Cypselidae) [Zwei neue fluegellosen Dipteren - Fam. Cypselidae]|journal=Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické|date=1929|volume=26|pages=64–68}}
- Aptilotella Duda, 1924{{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=Oswald|title= Aptilotella Borgmeieri ♂, eine neue flügellose Borboride (Dipt.) aus Brasilien|journal= Natuurhistorisch Maandblad, Maastricht|url=http://opuscula.elte.hu/PDF/Opuscula14_1977/Papp,%20L_14_8.pdf|accessdate=22 October 2017|volume=13|issue=5|pages=74–76}}
- Aptilotus 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|year=1898|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.3129|doi-access=free}}
- Archiceroptera 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}}
- Archicollinella Duda, 1925
- Archileptocera Duda, 1920{{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=Oswald|title=Vorläufige Mitteilung zur Kenntnis der außereuropäischen Arten der Gattungen Leptoceras Olivier=Limosina Macq. und Borborus Meigen (Dipteren)|journal=Zoologische Jahrbücher. Zeitschrift für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tier|date=1920|volume=43|pages=433–446|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9476663#page/443/mode/1up|accessdate=17 September 2017}}
- Archipterogrammoides Papp, 2008
- Aspinilimosina Papp, 2004{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title=Two new genera of the Oriental Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|journal=Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici|date=2004|volume=96|pages=103–114|url=http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHNHM/Annals_HNHM_2004_Vol_96_103.pdf|accessdate=24 October 2017}}
- Australimosina Papp, 2008
- Bentrovata Richards, 1973{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=The Sphaeroceridae (= Borboridae or Cypselidae; Diptera Cyclorrhapha) of the Australian Region|journal=Australian Journal of Zoology |series=Supplementary Series|date=1973|volume=21|issue=22|pages=297–401|doi=10.1071/AJZS022}}
- Biconnecta Papp, 2008
- Biroina Richards, 1973
- Bitheca Marshall, 1987{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=S. A.|title=Systematics of Bitheca, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=1987|volume=12|issue=3|pages=355–380 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.1987.tb00207.x|bibcode=1987SysEn..12..355M |s2cid=83811375 }}
- Bromeloecia Spuler, 1924{{cite journal|last1=Spuler|first1=Anthony|title=North American genera and subgenera of the dipterous family Borboridae|journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia|date=1924|volume=75|issue=1923|pages=369–378}}
- Cephalimosina Papp, 2008
- Ceroptera Macquart, 1835
- Ceropterella 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}}
- Chaetopodella Duda, 1920
- Chaetosifemur Papp, 2008
- Chespiritos Marshall, 2000{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=S. A.|title=Chespiritos, a new genus of Limosininae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from Costa Rica|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|date=2000|volume=102|pages=609–612|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16172520#page/135/mode/1up|accessdate=22 October 2017}}
- Coproica Rondani, 1861{{cite book|last1=Rondani|first1=Camillo|title=Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. Vol. 4. Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis|date=1861|location=Parma|pages=1–174}}
- Druciatus Marshall, 1995{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=S. A .|title=Sclerocoelus and Druciatus, new genera of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera; Sphaeroceridae; Limosininae)|journal=Insecta Mundi|date=1995|volume=9|pages=283–289|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1142&context=insectamundi|accessdate=22 October 2017|publisher=University of Nebraska - Lincoln}}
- Elachisoma Rondani, 1880{{cite journal|last1=Rondani|first1=Camillo|title=Species italicae ordinis dipterorum (Muscaria Rndn.) collectae et observatae. Stirps XXV. Copromyzinae Zett|journal=Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana|date=1880|volume=12|pages=3–45|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39661#page/311/mode/1up|accessdate=7 November 2017}}
- Eulimosina Roháček, 1983
- Eximilimosina Papp, 2008
- Gigalimosina 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 |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}}
- Giraffimyiella Papp, 2008
- Gobersa de Coninck, 1983{{cite journal|last1=Coninck|first1=E. de|title=Gobersa leleupi n.g., n.sp., a brachypterous Sphaerocerid from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania (Diptera)|journal=Revue de Zoologie Africaine |date=1983|volume=97|issue=2|pages=337–344}}
- Gonioneura Rondani, 1880
- Gonitella Papp, 2008
- Gyretria Enderlein, 1938{{cite journal|last1=Enderlein|first1=Günther|editor1-last=Skottsberg|editor1-first=C.|title=60. Die Dipterenfauna der Juan-Fernandez-Inseln und der Oster-Insel|journal=The Natural History of Juan Fernández and Easter Island (Zool.) Uppsala|date=1938|volume=3|pages=643–680}}
- Hellerella Duda, 1920
- Herniosina Roháček, 1983
- Howickia Richards, 1951
- Indiosina 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}}
- Kabaria Richards, 1966{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=New Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from the Kivu district, with a revision of the genus Aluligera Richards|journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines|date=1966|pages=201–254|volume=73}}
- Lepidosina Marshall & Buck, 2007{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=S. A.|last2=Buck|first2=M.|last3=Lonsdale|first3=O.|title=Lepidosina, a new genus of New World Limosininae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal=European Journal of Entomology|date=2007|volume=104|issue=3|pages=573–599|url=https://www.eje.cz/pdfs/eje/2007/03/22.pdf|accessdate=24 October 2017|doi=10.14411/eje.2007.074|doi-access=free}}
- Leptocera Olivier, 1813
- Limomyza Marshall, 1997{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=S. A.|title=Limomyza, a new genus of primitive Limosininae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), with five new species from United States, Mexico and Central America|journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington|date=1997|volume=99|pages=279–289|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16212946#page/289/mode/1up|accessdate=23 October 2017}}
- Limosina Macquart, 1835
- Limosinella Richards, 1968{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Some Sphaeroceridae (Diptera), partly short-winged, collected in South Africa by Monsieur N. Leleup|journal=Annals of the Natal Museum |date=1968|volume=20|pages=93–108|url=http://journals.co.za/docserver/fulltext/annals/20/1/716.pdf?expires=1508744957&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=F47D3DA66D859D7B496A6055F723207B|accessdate=23 October 2017}}
- Lobeliomyia Richards, 1951
- Mesaptilotus Richards, 1951
- Minialula Papp, 2008
- Minilimosina Roháček, 1983
- Mixolimosina Papp, 2008
- Monorbiseta Papp, 2008
- Monteithiana Richards, 1973
- Myrmolimosina Marshall, 2000{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=S. A.|title=A new genus of ant-like sphaerocerid from Mexico (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Studia Dipterologica |date=2000|volume=7|pages=213–223}}
- Nearcticorpus Roháček & Marshall, 1982{{cite journal|last1=Roháček|first1=Jindřich|last2=Marshall|first2=S. A.|title=A monograph of the genera Puncticorpus Duda, 1918 and Nearcticorpus gen.n. (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere|volume=109|pages=357–398}}
- Ocellipsis Richards, 1938{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Diptera Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Cypselidae). Mission scientifique de l'Omo.|journal=Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle|date=1938a|volume=4|issue=40|pages=381–405|location=Paris}}
- Ocellusia Séguy, 1955{{cite journal|last1=Séguy|first1=Eugène|title=Deux Cypsélides aptères de Madagascar (Diptères)|journal=Naturaliste Malgache|date=1955|volume=7|pages=77–81|url=http://madadoc.irenala.edu.mg/documents/8797_deux%20cypselides.pdf|accessdate=23 October 2017}}
- Opacifrons 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}}
- Opalimosina Roháček, 1983
- Oribatomyia Richards, 1960{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Further brachypterous and apterous Sphaeroceridae in the collection of the Musée royal du Congo belge|journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines|date=1960|volume=61|pages=320–332}}
- Otwayia Richards, 1973
- Pachytarsella Richards, 1963{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Diptera: Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae)|journal=Insects of Micronesia|url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/iom14-5sphaero.pdf|accessdate=21 November 2017|date=1963|volume=14|issue=5|pages=109–134}}
- Palaeocoprina Duda, 1920
- Papualimosina Hayashi, 2006{{cite journal|last1=Hayashi|first1=T.|title=Description of a new genus Papualimosina (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from the Australasian Region|journal=Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology|date=2006|volume=12|pages=225–229}}
- Papuellicesa Koçak & Kemal, 2010{{cite journal|last1=Koçak|first1=A. Ö|last2=Kemal|first2=M.|title=Nomenclatural notes on the genus group names of the order Diptera|journal=Miscellaneous Papers, Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara|date=2010|volume=151|pages=5–7}}
- Paracuminiseta Papp, 2008
- Paralimosina Papp, 1973{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title=Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from Mongolia|journal=Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|date=1973|volume=19|pages=369–425}}
- Paramera Papp, 2008
- Paraminilimosina Papp, 2008
- Parapoecilosomella Papp, 2008
- Parapterogramma Papp, 2008
- Paraptilotus Richards, 1938
- Parasclerocoelus Marshall & Dong, 2008{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Stephen A.|last2=Dong|first2=H.|title=Parasclerocoelus, a new south temperate genus of Limosininae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Studia Dipterologica|date=2008|volume=15|pages=223–230}}
- Paraspelobia 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}}
- Pellucialula Papp, 2004
- Philocoprella Richards, 1929{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Systematic notes on the Borboridae (Diptera) with description of new species of Leptocera (Limosina)|journal=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine|date=1929|volume=65|pages=171–176}}
- Phthitia Enderlein, 1938
- Piliterga Papp, 2008
- Pismira Richards, 1960
- Pleuroseta Richards, 1973
- Poecilosomella Duda, 1925
- Popondetta Richards, 1973
- Pseudacuminiseta Papp, 2008
- Pseudaspinilimosina Papp, 2008
- Pseudocollinella Duda, 1924{{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=O.|title=Berichtigungen zur Revision der europäischen Arten der Gattung Limosina Macq. (Dipteren), nebst Beschreibung von sechs neuen Arten|journal=Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien|date=1924|volume=73|issue=1923|pages=163–180|url=http://www.zobodat.at/stable/pdf/VZBG_73_0163-0180.pdf|accessdate=23 October 2017}}
- Pseudopterogramma Papp, 2008
- Pteremis Rondani, 1856
- Pterogramma Spuler, 1923
- Pterogrammoides Papp, 1972{{cite journal|last1=Papp|first1=László|title=New genera and species of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from New Guinea|journal=Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|date=1972|volume=18|pages=101–115}}
- Pullimosina Roháček, 1983
- Puncticorpus Duda, 1918
- Rachispoda Lioy, 1864{{cite book|last1=Lioy|first1=P.|title=I Ditteri distribuiti secondo un nuovo metodo di classifi cazione naturale Serie III, 9|date=1864|publisher=Atti dellíIstituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti|location=Venezia|pages=1087–1126}}
- Reunionia Papp, 1979
- Robustagramma Marshall & Cui, 2005{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Stephen A.|last2=Cui|first2=Yongsheng|title=Systematics of Robustagramma, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)|journal=Zootaxa|date=2005|volume=1026|pages=1–122 |location=Auckland, New Zealand|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1026.1.1}}
- Rohacekia Papp, 2008
- Rudolfina Roháček, 1987{{cite journal|last1=Roháček|first1=Jindřich|title=Replacement name for Rudolfia Roháček, 1982 (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), with first record of R. rozkosnyi from northern Europe|journal=Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca|date=1987a|volume=84|pages=474–476}}
- Sclerocoelus Marshall, 1995
- Scutelliseta Richards, 1960{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=A genus and species of wingless fly from South Africa (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Annals of the Natal Museum|date=1960|volume=15|pages=71–73|url=http://journals.co.za/docserver/fulltext/annals/15/5/810.pdf?expires=1508766003&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=9C8FBED1989A447A09274D2BA8C614F9|accessdate=23 October 2017}}
- Setositibiella Papp, 2008
- Siphlopteryx Enderlein, 1908{{cite book|last1=Enderlein|first1=Günther|editor1-last=Drygalski|editor1-first=E. D. von|title=Die Insekten des antarktischen Gebietes. In Deutsch Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903 im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern heraus- gegeben von Erich von Drygalski, Leiter der Expedition. X. Zoologie|volume=2|issue=4|date=1908|publisher=G. Reimer|location=Berlin|pages=361–528}}
- Spelobia Spuler, 1924
- Spinilimosina Roháček, 1983
- Telomerina Roháček, 1983
- Terrilimosina Roháček, 1983
- Thailimosina Papp, 2008
- Thoracochaeta Duda, 1918
- Trachyopella Duda, 1918
- Trilobitella Papp, 2008
- Trisetomyia Richards, 1965{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Diptera, Flightless Sphaeroceridae and Chloropidae. Mission zoologique de l'I.R.S.A.C. en Afrique orientale. (P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup, 1957)|journal=Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Série in 8 o, Sciences Zoologiques|date=1965|volume=138|pages=415–464}}
- Xenolimosina Roháček, 1983
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