Ptiolina Explained

Ptiolina is a genus of snipe flies of the family Rhagionidae,.^[1] Examples are found in Northwest Europe, where it prefers woodlands areas.^[2] and North America ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Ptiolina species are delicate to fairly robust flies, and from 3 to 10 mm. They are entirely black or brown in colour.

Species

• Ptiolina alapponica Makarkin & Sidorenko, 2001^[6]
• Ptiolina alberta Leonard, 1931^[7]
• Ptiolina angusta Curran, 1931^[7]
• Ptiolina attenuata Nagatomi, 1986^[8]
• Ptiolina dudai Lindner, 1942^[9]
• Ptiolina edeta (Walker, 1849)^[10]
• Ptiolina grandis Frey, 1918^[11]
• Ptiolina latifrons Nagatomi, 1986^[8]
• Ptiolina leleji Makarkin & Sidorenko, 2001^[6]
• Ptiolina longipilosa Nagatomi, 1986^[8]
• Ptiolina mallochi Hardy & McGuire, 1947^[12]
• Ptiolina nagatomii Makarkin & Sidorenko, 2001^[6]
• Ptiolina nervosa Nagatomi, 1986^[8]
• Ptiolina nitida Wahlberg, 1854^[13]
• Ptiolina nitidifrons Hardy & McGuire, 1947^[12]
• Ptiolina obscura (Fallén, 1814) Black-fringe moss-snipefly^[4]
• Ptiolina obsoleta Leonard, 1931^[7]
• Ptiolina paradoxa (Jaennicke, 1867)
• Ptiolina pelliticornis Becker, 1900^[14]
• Ptiolina shimai Nagatomi, 1985^[15]
• Ptiolina sphaeralis Nagatomi, 1986^[8]
• Ptiolina vicina Hardy & McGuire, 1947^[12]
• Ptiolina zonata Hardy & McGuire, 1947^[12]

Notes and References

1. "Species of the Genus Ptiolina" at the British Towns and Villages Network.
2. Mark van Veen, Fuanist. "Ptiolina of Northwest Europe"
3. Ross H. Arnett, American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Edition: 2, illustrated, Published by CRC Press, 2000,, . See page 872
4. Book: Stubbs . Alan E. . Drake . Martin . British Soldierflies and their allies

   A Field Guide to the Larger British Brachycera

   . 2001 . . London . 1-899935-04-5 . 528 pages .
5. Kerr . Peter H. . Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera) . Zootaxa . 2010 . 2592 . 1 . 1–133.
6. Makarkin . V.N. . Sidorenko . V.S. . New species of the family Rhagionidae (Diptera) from the Russian Far East . Far Eastern Entomologist . 2001 . 102 . 11 pp . 1 December 2022.
7. Curran . C.H. . Some new North American Diptera . The Canadian Entomologist . 1931 . 63 . 249–254.
8. Nagatomi . A. . The Japanese Ptiolina (Diptera, Rhagionidae) . Kontyû . 1986 . 54 . 309–323.
9. Lindner . E. . Beitrag zur Kenntnis der europäische n Ptiolina-Arten (Diptera, Rhagionidae) . Arbeiten Uber Morphologische u. Taxonomische Entomologie . 1942 . 9 . 230–241.
10. 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.
11. Frey . R. . Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Dipterenfauna des nordl. europäische n Russlands. II. Dipteren aus Archangelsk . Acta Societatis pro Fauna et Flora Fennica . 1918 . 46 . 2 . 1–32 . 29 August 2022.
12. Hardy . D.E. . McGuire . J.U. . The Nearctic Ptiolina (Rhagionidae-Diptera) . Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society . 1947 . 20 . 1–15, 1 pl.
13. Wahlberg . P.F. . Bidrag till kannedomen om de nordiska Diptera . Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskapsakademiens Förhandlingar . 1854 . 11 . 211–216 . 2 January 2023.
14. Becker . T. . Die Leptiden-Formen im Gebiete der Europaisch-Asiatischen und Mittelmeer-Fauna . Entomologische Nachrichten . 1900 . 26 . 97–116 . 1 December 2022.
15. Nagatomi . A. . A new Ptiolina from Nepal (Diptera, Rhagionidae) . Mem. Kagoshima Univ. Res. Center S. Pacific. . 1985 . 6 . 211–219.