Paraptilotus

Paraptilotus is a genus of flies belonging to the family Lesser Dung flies.[3]

Paraptilotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Sphaeroceridae
Subfamily:	Limosininae
Genus:	Paraptilotus Richards, 1938[1]
Type species
Paraptilotus chaetosoma Richards, 1938[1]
Synonyms
Binorbitalia Richards, 1951[2]

Species

• P. brunneisternum Richards, 1938[1]
• P. chaetosoma Richards, 1938[1]
• P. discontinuus (Richards, 1954)[4]
• P. flavipes Richards, 1938[1]
• P. nitidissimus (Richards, 1951)[2]
• P. pallidus Richards, 1965[5]
• P. rufescens Richards, 1965[5]
• P. senecionis Richards, 1957[6]
• P. tricolor Richards, 1965[5]

References

1. Richards, O. W. (1938a). "Diptera Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae, Cypselidae). Mission scientifique de l'Omo". Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris. 4 (40): 381–405.
2. Richards, O. W. (1951). "Brachypterous Sphaeroceridae". British Museum (Natural History) Ruwenzori Expedition, 1934-1935. 2 (8): 829–851.
3. Rohček, Jindřich; Marshall, Stephen A.; Norrbom, Allen L.; Buck, Matthias; Quiros, Dora Isabel; Smith, Ian (2001). Rohček, Jindřich (ed.). World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera). Opava: Slezské Zemské Muzeum. pp. 1–414. ISBN 978-8086224213. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
4. Richards, O. W. (1954). "Two new wingless species of Diptera, Sphaeroceridae (Borboridae), from Ethiopia". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 42 (286): 387–391. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1954.tb02214.x.
5. Richards, O. W. (1965). "Diptera, Flightless Sphaeroceridae and Chloropidae. Mission zoologique de l'I.R.S.A.C. en Afrique orientale. (P. Basilewsky et N. Leleup, 1957)". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central, Tervuren, Série in 8 o , Sciences Zoologiques. 138: 415–464.
6. Richards, O. W. (1957). "On apterous and brachypterous Sphaeroceridae from Mt. Elgon in the collection of the Musée royal du Congo belge, Tervuren (Diptera)". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 55: 374–382.