Lonchoptera

Species in Lonchoptera are tiny to small, at {{cvt|2–5|mm}}, slender, and yellow to brownish-black bristly.

The larvae are dorsally flattened, with two pairs of head bristles, and feed on rotting vegetable matter,{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=K.G.V. |year=1969 |title=Lonchopteridae |journal=Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects |volume=10 |issue=2ai |page=9 |publisher=Royal Entomological Society of London |location=London |type=Print }} including in one case brussels sprouts.{{cite magazine |last=Airy-Shaw |first=H.K. |year=1969 |title=Unusual habitat for Lonchoptera (Dipt., Lonchopteridae) larvae? |magazine=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |volume=105 |page=26 |type=Print }}

This genus can be distinguished from other spear-winged flies by several traits:{{cite journal |last=Dong |first=Qibiao |author2=Pang, Baoping |author3=Yang, Ding |year=2008 |title=Lonchopteridae (Diptera) from Guangxi, Southwest China |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1806 |pages=59–65 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1806.1.4 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01806p065f.pdf |format=PDF Adobe Achrobat |accessdate=17 September 2009 }}

• foreleg tibiae have dorsal setae in the middle
• foreleg tarsi thinner than foreleg tibiae
• pointed wingtip without apical brown spot.

Species include:

{{div col|colwidth=25em}}

• Lonchoptera africana Adams, 1905{{cite journal |last=Adams |first=C.F. |year=1905 |title=Diptera Africana |journal=Kansas University Science Bulletin |volume=3 |issue=6 |pages=149–159? |publisher=Kansas University |doi=10.5962/bhl.part.8100 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/8100 |type=Print }}{{cite journal |last=Stuckenberg |url=https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00128789_3012 |first=B. R. |year=1963 |title=The genus Lonchoptera Meigen in Southern Africa |journal=Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa |volume=26 |pages=129–143 |type=Print }}
• Lonchoptera alfhildae Andersson, 1971{{cite journal |last=Andersson |first=H. |year=1971 |title=Eight new species of Lonchoptera from Burma (Dipt., Lonchopteridae) |journal=Entomologisk Tidskrift |volume=92 |issue=3–4 |pages=213–231 }}
• Lonchoptera anderssoni Joseph & Parui, 1976{{cite journal |last=Joseph |first=A.N.T. |author2=Parui, P. |year=1976 |title=A New Species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) from India |journal=Oriental Insects |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=291–293 |publisher=Zoological Survey of India |location=Calcutta |type=Print |doi=10.1080/00305316.1976.10434910}}
• Lonchoptera annikaae Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera apicalis (Okada, 1935){{cite book |last=Andersson |first=H. |editor=Soós, Á. |editor2=Papp, L. |year=1991 |title=Lonchopteridae in Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera |volume=7 |pages=139–142 |publisher=Hungarian Natural History Museum |location=Budapest, Hungary }}
• Lonchoptera barberi Klymko, 2008
• Lonchoptera bifurcata (Fallén, 1810)
• Lonchoptera birmanica Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera birmensis Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera casanova Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera elinorae Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera excavata Yang & Chen, 1995
• Lonchoptera fallax de Meijere, 1906
• Lonchoptera hakonensis Matsumura, 1916
• Lonchoptera impicta Zetterstedt, 1848
• Lonchoptera japonica Matsumura, 1915
• Lonchoptera kamtschatkana (Czerny, 1934)
• Lonchoptera longiphallus Klymko, 2008
• Lonchoptera lutea Panzer, 1809
• Lonchoptera maculata Smith, 1974{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=K.G.V. |year=1974 |title=A striking new species of Lonchoptera (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo |journal=Journal of Natural History |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=235–237 |doi=10.1080/00222937400770211 |bibcode=1974JNatH...8..235S |type=Print }}
• Lonchoptera malaisei Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera megaloba Klymko, 2008
• Lonchoptera meijerei Collin, 1938{{cite magazine |last=Collin |first=J. E. |year=1938 |title=The British species of Lonchoptera (Diptera) |magazine=Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |volume=74 |pages=60–65 |type=Print }}
• Lonchoptera nerana Vaillant, 1989
• Lonchoptera nevadica Vaillant, 1989
• Lonchoptera nigrociliata Duda, 1927
• Lonchoptera nitidifrons Strobl, 1898
• Lonchoptera occidentalis Curran, 1934
• Lonchoptera orientalis (Kertész, 1914)
• Lonchoptera pictipennis Bezzi, 1899
• Lonchoptera pinglongshanensis Dong, Pang & Yang, 2008
• Lonchoptera pipi Andersson, 1971
• Lonchoptera platytarsis (Okada, 1935)
• Lonchoptera pseudolutea Whittington & Beuk, 2022{{cite magazine |last=Whittington |first=A. E. |author2=Beuk, P. L. T. |year=2022 |title=A description of a new species of Western Palaearctic Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Georgia |magazine=ZooNova |volume=20 |pages=1–18 |type=Print }}
• Lonchoptera rava Whittington, 1991{{cite book |last=Whittington |first=A. E. |year=1991 |title=Two new Afrotropical species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) |volume=32 |pages=205–214 |location=Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |type=Print }}
• Lonchoptera sapporensis Matsumura, 1915
• Lonchoptera scutellata Stein, 1890
• Lonchoptera stackelbergi (Czerny, 1934)
• Lonchoptera strobli de Meijere, 1906
• Lonchoptera transvaalensis Stuckenberg, 1963
• Lonchoptera tristis Meigen, 1824
• Lonchoptera ugandensis Whittington, 1991
• Lonchoptera unicolor Dong, Pang & Yang, 2008
• Lonchoptera uniseta Curran, 1934
• Lonchoptera vaillanti Zwick, 2004{{cite journal |last=Zwick |first=P. |year=2004 |title=Lonchoptera vaillanti sp. nov., a new fly from Switzerland (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) |journal=Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Gessellschaft |volume=77 |pages=133–136 }}
• Lonchoptera vesperis Stuckenberg, 1963

{{Div col end}}

{{Incomplete list|date=December 2009}}

{{Reflist}}

{{Taxonbar|from=Q6669679}}

Category:Platypezoidea genera

Category:Lonchopteridae

Category:Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen