Palaeocoprina
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Taxobox
| image =
| image_caption =
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Diptera
| familia = Sphaeroceridae
| subfamilia = Limosininae
| genus = Palaeocoprina
| genus_authority = Duda, 1920{{cite journal|last1=Duda|first1=Oswald|title=Vorläufige Mitteilung zur Kenntnis der aussereuropäischen Arten der Gattungen Leptocera Olivier = Limosina Macq. und Borborus Meigen (Dipteren) |journal=Zoologische Jahrbücher |date=1920|volume=43|pages=433–446 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9476663#page/443/mode/1up }}
| synonyms =
| type_species = Archileptocera (Palaeocoprina) geminiseta
| type_species_authority = Duda, 1920
}}
Palaeocoprina is a genus 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}}
Species
- P. argentinensis Marshall, 1998{{cite journal|last1=Marshall|first1=Stephen A.|title=A revision of the Archileptocera group, including Anomioptera Schiner, Palaeocoprina Duda and Archileptocera Duda, with a key to sphaerocerid genera with similar wing venation and a description of a new species of Palaeoceroptera Duda (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)|journal=Journal of Natural History|date=1998|volume=32|issue=2|pages=173–216|doi=10.1080/00222939800770111}}
- P. colombiensis Marshall, 1998
- P. disticha (Becker, 1920){{cite journal|last1=Becker|first1=Theodor|title=Diptères brachycères|journal=Mission du Service Géographique de l'Armée Pour la Mesure d'un Arc de Méridien Equatorial en Amérique du Sud, 1899-1906|date=1920|volume=10 |issue=2, 1919 |pages=163–215}}
- P. equiseta Marshall, 1998
- P. geminiseta (Duda, 1920)
- P. longinotum Marshall, 1998
- P. masneri Marshall, 1998
- P. pisinna Marshall, 1998
- P. quadriseta Marshall, 1998
References
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Category:Diptera of South America