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Ptychoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
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.

Ptychoptera minuta

Ptychoptera quadrifasciata

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

• McAlpine, J. F.; Petersen, B. V.; Shewell, G. E.; Teskey, H. J.; Vockeroth, J. R.; Wood, D. M., eds. (1981). Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume I. Agriculture Canada, Research Branch. ISBN 978-0-660-10731-8.

External links

• Media related to Ptychoptera at Wikimedia Commons