Ptilocera Explained

Ptilocera is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.^[1]

Species

• Ptilocera amethystina Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1857^[2]
• Ptilocera aureopilosa Mason & Rozkošný, 2011^[3]
• Ptilocera bergi James, 1948^[4]
• Ptilocera continua Walker, 1851^[5]
• Ptilocera fastuosa Gerstaecker, 1857^[6]
• Ptilocera flavispina Yang, Zhang & Li, 2014^[7]
• Ptilocera kerteszi Mason & Rozkošný, 2011^[3]
• Ptilocera lateralis Macquart, 1846^[8]
• Ptilocera latiscutella Yang, Zhang & Li, 2014^[7]
• Ptilocera paradisea Lindner, 1951^[9]
• Ptilocera quadridentata (Fabricius, 1805)
• Ptilocera simplex Mason & Rozkošný, 2011^[3]
• Ptilocera smaragdifera Walker, 1859^[10]
• Ptilocera smaragdina Walker, 1849^[11]
• Ptilocera violacea Edwards, 1915^[12]

Notes and References

1. Woodley . N.E. . A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera) . Myia . 2001 . 11 . 1–462. 7 December 2022.
2. Snellen van Vollenhoven . S.C. . Notes dipterologiques . Mem. Ent., Soc. Ent. Pays-Bas. . 1857 . 1 . 88–93.
3. Mason . F. . Rozkošný . R. . A review of the Oriental and Australasian Ptilocera species (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) . Zootaxa . 2011 . 3007 . 1–49 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3007.1.1 . 27 January 2023.
4. James . M. T. . Flies of the family Stratiomyidae of the Solomon Islands. . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1948 . 98 . 3228 . 187–213. 10.5479/si.00963801.3228.187 .
5. Book: Walker . F. . Diptera. Part II, pp. 77-156, pls. 3-4. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1., . . 1851 . Van Voorst . London . 1–474.
6. Gerstaecker. Karl Eduard Adolph. Beitrag zur Kenntniss exotischer Stratiomyiden. Linnea Entom. 1857. 11. 261–350, pl. 3. 11 June 2017.
7. Book: Yang . D. . Zhang . T.T. . Li . Z. . Stratiomyoidea of China . 2014 . China Agricultural University Press . Beijing . 870 pp.
8. 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.
9. Lindner . E. . Stratiomyiiden von Sumba und Timor [Dipt.] . Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel . 1951 . 62 . 218–223.
10. Walker . F. . Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Makessar in Celebes, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species . Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology . 18591860 . 4 . 14 . 90–96, 97–144, 145–172 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1859.tb00089.x . 21 November 2022.
11. Book: Walker. F.. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. 1849. British Museum (Natural History). London. 485–687.
12. Edwards . F.W. . Report on the Diptera collected by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. With a section on the Asilidae by E.E. Austen . Transactions of the Zoological Society of London . 1915 . 20 . 391–424 . 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1912.tb07841.x . 30 August 2022.