Paraptilotus
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Taxobox
| image =
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| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Diptera
| familia = Sphaeroceridae
| subfamilia = Limosininae
| genus = Paraptilotus
| genus_authority = 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}}
| synonyms = *Binorbitalia 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}}
| type_species = Paraptilotus chaetosoma
| type_species_authority = Richards, 1938
}}
Paraptilotus is a genus of flies belonging to the family 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. brunneisternum Richards, 1938
- P. chaetosoma Richards, 1938
- P. discontinuus (Richards, 1954){{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=Two new wingless species of Diptera, Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae), from Ethiopia|journal=Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology|date=1954|volume=42|issue=286|pages=387–391|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1954.tb02214.x}}
- P. flavipes Richards, 1938
- P. nitidissimus (Richards, 1951)
- P. pallidus 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}}
- P. rufescens Richards, 1965
- P. senecionis Richards, 1957{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=O. W.|title=On apterous and brachypterous Sphaeroceridae from Mt. Elgon in the collection of the Musée royal du Congo belge, Tervuren (Diptera)|journal=Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines|date=1957|volume=55|pages=374–382}}
- P. tricolor Richards, 1965
References
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