Ptychoptera

Ptychoptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ptychopteridae
Genus:	Ptychoptera Meigen, 1803

Ptychoptera is a genus of phantom crane flies in the family Ptychopteridae. There are at least 70 described species in Ptychoptera.

Species

These 76 species belong to the genus Ptychoptera:

• Ptychoptera africana Alexander, 1920 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera agnes Krzeminski & Zwick, 1993 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera albimana (Fabricius, 1787) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera alexanderi Hancock, Marcos-Garcia & Rotheray, 2006 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera alina Krzeminski & Zwick, 1993 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera annandalei Brunetti, 1918 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera bannaensis ^g
• Ptychoptera bellula Alexander, 1937 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera byersi Alexander, 1966 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera camerounensis Alexander, 1921 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera capensis Alexander, 1917 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera chalybeata Alexander, 1956 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera clitellaria Alexander, 1935 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera coloradensis Alexander, 1937 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera contaminata (Linnaeus, 1758) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera daimio Alexander, 1921 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera deleta Novak, 1877 ^g
• Ptychoptera delmastroi Zwick & Stary, 2002 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera distincta Brunetti, 1911 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera formosensis Alexander, 1924 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera garhwalensis Alexander, 1959 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera gutianshana Yang & Chen, 1995 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera handlirschi (Czizek, 1919) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera helena (Peus, 1958) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera hugoi Tjeder, 1968 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera ichitai Nakamura & Saigusa, 2009 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera ichneumonoidea Alexander, 1946 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera japonica Alexander, 1913 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera javensis Alexander, 1937 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera kosiensis Stuckenberg, 1983 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera kyushuensis Nakamura & Saigusa, 2009 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera lacustris Meigen, 1830 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera lenis Osten Sacken, 1877 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera lenta (Harris, 1776) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera lii ^g
• Ptychoptera longicauda (Tonnoir, 1919) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera longwangshana Yang & Chen, 1998 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera lushuiensis ^g
• Ptychoptera madagascariensis Alexander, 1937 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera malaisei Alexander, 1946 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera matongoensis Alexander, 1958 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera metallica Walker, 1848 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera minor Alexander, 1920 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera minuta Tonnoir, 1919 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera monoensis Alexander, 1947 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera obscura (Peus, 1958) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera osccola Alexander, 1959 ^{i g}
• Ptychoptera osceola Alexander, 1959 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera pallidicostalis Nakamura & Saigusa, 2009 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera paludosa Meigen, 1804 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera pauliani Alexander, 1957 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera pectinata Macquart, 1834 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera pendula Alexander, 1937 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera perbona Alexander, 1946 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera persimilis Alexander, 1947 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera peusi Joost, 1974 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera praescutellaris Alexander, 1946 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera qinggouensis ^g
• Ptychoptera quadrifasciata Say, 1824 ^{i c g b}
• Ptychoptera ressli Theischinger, 1978 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera robinsoni Alexander, 1957 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera sculleni Alexander, 1943 ^{i c g b}
• Ptychoptera scutellaris Meigen, 1818 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera sikkimensis Alexander, 1965 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera silvicola Zwyrtek & Rozkosny, 1967 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera subscutellaris Alexander, 1921 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera sumatrensis Alexander, 1936 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera surcoufi (Seguy, 1925) ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera takeuchii Tokunaga, 1938 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera tibialis Brunetti, 1911 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera townesi Alexander, 1943 ^{i c g b}
• Ptychoptera uelensis Alexander, 1928 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera uta Alexander, 1947 ^{i c g}
• Ptychoptera wangae ^g
• Ptychoptera yamato Nakamura & Saigusa, 2009 ^{c g}
• Ptychoptera yasumatsui Tokunaga, 1939 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Charles, H. Curran (1934). "The families and genera of North American Diptera". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.6825. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• McAlpine, J.F.; Petersen, B.V.; Shewell, G.E.; Teskey, H.J.; et al. (1987). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Research Branch Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0660121253.

External links

• "Diptera.info". Retrieved 2018-04-23.
• Media related to Ptychoptera at Wikimedia Commons