Acrocera Explained

Acrocera is a genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae.^[1]

Species

Subgenus Acrocera Meigen, 1803

• Acrocera ashleyi Barraclough, 2000^[2]
• Acrocera bacchulus (Frey, 1936)^[3]
• Acrocera bakeri Coquillett, 1904^[4]
• Acrocera bicolor Macquart, 1846^[5]
• Acrocera borealis Zetterstedt, 1838^[6]
• Acrocera bulla Westwood, 1848^[7]
• Acrocera brasiliensis Gil Collado, 1928^[8]
• Acrocera convexa Cole, 1919^[9]
• Acrocera fasciata Wiedemann, 1830^[10]
• Acrocera flaveola Sabrosky, 1944^[11]
• Acrocera fumipennis Westwood, 1848^[7]
• Acrocera honorati Brèthes, 1925^[12]
• Acrocera infurcata Brunetti, 1926^[13]
• Acrocera laeta Gerstaecker, 1856^[14]
• Acrocera londti Barraclough, 1984^[15]
• Acrocera nigrina Westwood, 1848^[7]
• Acrocera obsoleta Wulp, 1867^[16]
• Acrocera orbiculus (Fabricius, 1787)^[17]
• Acrocera paitana (Séguy, 1956)^[18]
• Acrocera pallidivena Schlinger, 1960
• Acrocera parva Yang, Liu & Dong, 2016^[19]
• Acrocera tenuistylus Yang, Liu & Dong, 2016^[19]
• Acrocera turneri Schlinger, 1960
• Acrocera unguiculata Westwood, 1848^[7]
• Acrocera vansoni Schlinger, 1960
• Acrocera wulingensis Yang, Liu & Dong, 2016^[19]

Subgenus Acrocerina Gil Collado, 1929:^[20]

• Acrocera altaica Pleske, 1930^[21]
• Acrocera arizonensis Cole, 1919^[9]
• Acrocera bimaculata Loew, 1866^[22]
• Acrocera braueri Pokorny, 1887^[23]
• Acrocera bucharica Nartshuk, 1982^[24]
• Acrocera cabrerae Frey, 1936^[3]
• Acrocera chiiensis Ôuchi, 1942^[25]
• Acrocera khamensis Pleske, 1930^[21]
• Acrocera lindneri Sabrosky, 1954^[26]
• Acrocera melanderi Cole, 1919^[9]
• Acrocera melanogaster Schlinger, 1961^[27]
• Acrocera mongolica Pleske, 1930^[21]
• Acrocera natalensis Schlinger, 1960^[28]
• Acrocera nigrofemorata Meigen, 1804^[29]
• Acrocera obnubila Nartshuk, 1979^[30]
• Acrocera obscura Gil Collado, 1929^[20]
• Acrocera plebeia Brunetti, 1926^[13]
• Acrocera prima Meijere, 1914^[31]
• Acrocera rhodesiensis Schlinger, 1960^[28]
• Acrocera sanguinea Meigen, 1804^[29]
• Acrocera sordida Pleske, 1930^[21]
• Acrocera stansburyi Johnson, 1923^[32]
• Acrocera stelviana Pokorny, 1886^[33]
• Acrocera subfasciata Westwood, 1848^[7]
• Acrocera tarsalis Nartshuk, 1975^[34]
• Acrocera transbaicalica Pleske, 1930^[21]
• Acrocera trifasciata Pleske, 1930^[21]
• Acrocera trigramma Loew, 1845^[35]
• Acrocera trigrammoides Pokorny, 1887^[23]

The fossil species Acrocera hirsuta Scudder, 1877 is not considered an acrocerid, instead appearing closer to the Mythicomyiidae.^[36]

Notes and References

1. Book: Stubbs . A. . Drake . M. . British Soldierflies and their Allies . 2014 . British Entomological and Natural History Society . Wokingham . 9781899935079 . 528 . 2.
2. Barraclough . D.A. . The Acroceridae (Diptera) of Namibia, with descriptions of two new species . Cimbebasia . 2000 . 16 . 25–30.
3. Frey . R. . Die Dipterenfauna der Kanarischen Inseln und ihre Probleme . Commentat. Biol. Soc. Sci. Fenn. . 1936 . 6 . 237.
4. Baker . C.F. . Diptera. Reports on Californian and Nevadan Diptera, I . Invertebrata Pacifica . 1904 . 1 . 17–40 . 23 May 2021.
5. Book: Macquart . P.J.M. . Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. [1] ]. 1846 . Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Agric. Arts . Lille . 133–364, 20 pls . 5 December 2020.
6. Book: Zetterstedt . J. W. . Dipterologis Scandinaviae. Sect. 3: Diptera, pp. 477-868. In his Insecta Lapponica . 1838 . Lipsiae [= Leipzig] . vi + 1,140.
7. Westwood. J. O.. 1848. Descriptions of some new exotic species of Acroceridae (Vesiculosa, Latr.), a family of dipterous insects. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 5. 4. 91–98. 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1848.tb02978.x.
8. Gil Collado . J. . Cirtidoes nuevos del Museo de Madrid (Dipt.). . Eos . 1928 . 4 . 57–64.
9. Cole. F. R.. 1919. The Dipterous Family Cyrtidae in North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 45. 1. 1–79. 25077002.
10. Book: Wiedemann . Christian Rudolph Wilhelm . Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks . 1828 . Zweiter Theil. Schulz . Hamm . xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls .
11. Sabrosky. C. W.. 1944. A Revision of the American Spider Parasites of the Genera Ogcodes and Acrocera (Diptera, Acroceridae). The American Midland Naturalist. 31. 2. 385–413. 10.2307/2421075. 2421075.
12. Brèthes . J. . Coleopteres et Diptères Chiliens. . Revista Chilena de Historia Natural . 1925 . 29 . 198–208.
13. Brunetti. E.. 1926. New and little-known Cyrtidæ (Diptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9. 18. 107. 561–606. 10.1080/00222932608633552.
14. Gerstaecker . A. . Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Henopier . Stettiner entomologische Zeitung . 1856 . 17 . 339–361 . 21 August 2022.
15. Barraclough. D. A.. 1984. Review of some Afrotropical Acroceridae, with descriptions of eight new species from South Africa (Diptera: Brachycera). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa. 47. 1. 45–66.
16. Wulp . F.M. van der . Eenige Noord-Americaansche Diptera . Tijdschrift voor Entomologie . 1867 . 10 . 125–164, pl. 3–5 . 12 March 2021.
17. Book: Fabricius . J.C. . Mantissa insectorum . 2 . 1787 . C. G. Proft . Hafniae [=Copenhagen] . [2] + 382 pp.
18. Séguy . E. . Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus d'extreme-Orient . Notes Ent. Chin . 1948 . 12 . 14 . 153–172 . 2 August 2021.
19. Book: Yang . D. . Liu . S.P. . Dong . H. . Therevidae, Scenopinidae and Acroceridae from China . 2016 . China Agriculture Science and Technology Press . Beijing . 2 +154 pp.
20. Gil Collado . J. . Cirtidos espanoles y marroquies del Museo de Madrid (Dipt. Cyrt.) . Mem. Real Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat. . 1929 . 15 . 539–552.
21. Pleske . T. . Revue des espèces paléarctiques de la famille des Cyrtidae (Diptera) . Konowia . 1930 . 9 . 156-173.
22. Loew . H. . Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria sexta. . Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift . 1866 . (1865) 9 . 127–186 . 17 October 2020.
23. Pokorny . E. . (III.) Beitrag zur Dipterenfauna Tirols . Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien . 1887 . 37 . 381–420, pl. 7. . 17 March 2021.
24. Nartshuk . E.P. . A review of acrocerid flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) of the USSR with descriptions of a new genus and some new species . Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie . 1982 . 61 . 404–417 . Russian.
25. Ôuchi . Y. . Notes on some cyrtid flies from China and Japan . J. Shanghai Sci. Inst. . 1942 . 11 . 29–38.
26. Sabrosky . C.W. . Some East African Diptera of the families Acroceridae, Asteiidae and Chloropidae . Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society . 1954 . 49 . 36–46 . 21 August 2022.
27. Schlinger . E.I. . New species of Acrocera from Arizona and Ocnaea from California, with synonymical notes on the Genus Ocnaea (Diptera: Acroceridae) . Entomological News . 1961 . 72 . 7–12.
28. Schlinger. E. I.. 1960. A review of the South African Acroceridae (Diptera). Annals of the Natal Museum. 14. 3. 459–504.
29. Book: Meigen . J.W. . Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten (Diptera Linn.). Erster Band. Abt. I. . 1804 . Reichard . Braunschweig [= Brunswick] . xxviii + pp. 1–152, Abt. II. vi + pp. 153–314 .
30. Nartshuk . E.P. . New data on Acroceridae (Diptera) of the Mongolian People's Republic . Ins. Mongolia . 1979 . 6 . 424–427 . Russian.
31. Meijere . J. C. H. de . Studien uber sudostasiatische Dipteren. VIII . Tijdschr. Ent. . 1914 . 56 (Suppl.) . 99 pp., 3 pls.
32. Johnson . C.W. . New species of North American Cyrtidae . Psyche: A Journal of Entomology . 1923 . 30 . 49–51 . 21 August 2022.
33. Pokorny . E. . Vier neue österreichische Dipteren . Wiener Entomologische Zeitung . 1886 . 5 . 191–196 . 10.5962/bhl.part.20582 . 13 April 2022.
34. Nartshuk . E.P. . On the fauna of Acroceridae (Diptera) of the Mongolian People's Republic . Ins. Mongolia . 1975 . 3 . 511–520 . Russian.
35. Loew . H. . Acrocera trigramma, eine neue europäische Art . Stettin. ent. Ztg . 1845 . 6 . 290–292 . 21 August 2022.
36. Web site: Evenhuis. N.L.. 2 Apr 2014. Family Acroceridae. Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.