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Lonchoptera
	Lonchoptera lutea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Lonchopteridae
Genus:	Lonchoptera; Meigen, 1803
Type species
	Lonchoptera lutea; Panzer, 1809
Synonyms
	Dipsa Fallén, 1810; Lonchopteryx Stephens, 1829 (unjustified emendation); Musidora Meigen, 1800 (suppressed);

Lonchoptera is a genus of spear-winged flies (Lonchopteridae). Their common name refers to their subacute (pointed) wings, which have a distinct and sexually dimorphic venation.

Description

Species in Lonchoptera are tiny to small, at 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in), slender, and yellow to brownish-black bristly.

The larvae are dorsally flattened, with two pairs of head bristles, and feed on rotting vegetable matter,^[2] including in one case brussels sprouts.^[3]

This genus can be distinguished from other spear-winged flies by several traits:^[4]

foreleg tibiae have dorsal setae in the middle
foreleg tarsi thinner than foreleg tibiae
pointed wingtip without apical brown spot.

Species

Species include:

Lonchoptera africana Adams, 1905^[5]^[6]
Lonchoptera alfhildae Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera anderssoni Joseph & Parui, 1976^[8]
Lonchoptera annikaae Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera apicalis (Okada, 1935)^[9]
Lonchoptera barberi Klymko, 2008
Lonchoptera bifurcata (Fallén, 1810)^[2]^[9]
Lonchoptera birmanica Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera birmensis Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera casanova Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera elinorae Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera excavata Yang & Chen, 1995^[4]
Lonchoptera fallax de Meijere, 1906^[9]
Lonchoptera hakonensis Matsumura, 1916^[9]
Lonchoptera impicta Zetterstedt, 1848^[9]
Lonchoptera japonica Matsumura, 1915^[9]
Lonchoptera kamtschatkana (Czerny, 1934)^[9]
Lonchoptera longiphallus Klymko, 2008
Lonchoptera lutea Panzer, 1809^[2]^[9]
Lonchoptera maculata Smith, 1974^[10]
Lonchoptera malaisei Andersson, 1971^[7]
Lonchoptera megaloba Klymko, 2008
Lonchoptera meijerei Collin, 1938^[2]^[9]^[11]
Lonchoptera nerana Vaillant, 1989
Lonchoptera nevadica Vaillant, 1989
Lonchoptera nigrociliata Duda, 1927^[2]^[9]
Lonchoptera nitidifrons Strobl, 1898^[2]^[9]
Lonchoptera occidentalis Curran, 1934
Lonchoptera orientalis (Kertész, 1914)^[4]^[7]
Lonchoptera pictipennis Bezzi, 1899^[9]
Lonchoptera pinglongshanensis Dong, Pang & Yang, 2008^[4]
Lonchoptera pipi Andersson, 1971^[4]
Lonchoptera platytarsis (Okada, 1935)^[9]
Lonchoptera pseudolutea Whittington & Beuk, 2022^[12]
Lonchoptera rava Whittington, 1991^[13]
Lonchoptera sapporensis Matsumura, 1915^[9]
Lonchoptera scutellata Stein, 1890^[2]^[9]
Lonchoptera stackelbergi (Czerny, 1934)^[9]
Lonchoptera strobli de Meijere, 1906^[9]
Lonchoptera transvaalensis Stuckenberg, 1963^[6]
Lonchoptera tristis Meigen, 1824^[2]^[9]
Lonchoptera ugandensis Whittington, 1991^[13]
Lonchoptera unicolor Dong, Pang & Yang, 2008^[4]
Lonchoptera uniseta Curran, 1934
Lonchoptera vaillanti Zwick, 2004^[14]
Lonchoptera vesperis Stuckenberg, 1963^[6]

References

^ Meigen, J. W. (1803). "Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten". Magazin für Insektenkunde. 2: 259–281.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Smith, K.G.V. (1969). "Lonchopteridae". Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects (Print). 10 (2ai). London: Royal Entomological Society of London: 9.
^ Airy-Shaw, H.K. (1969). "Unusual habitat for Lonchoptera (Dipt., Lonchopteridae) larvae?". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Print). Vol. 105. p. 26.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dong, Qibiao; Pang, Baoping; Yang, Ding (2008). "Lonchopteridae (Diptera) from Guangxi, Southwest China" (PDF Adobe Achrobat). Zootaxa. 1806: 59–65. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1806.1.4. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
^ Adams, C.F. (1905). "Diptera Africana". Kansas University Science Bulletin (Print). 3 (6). Kansas University: 149–159?. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8100.
^ ^a ^b ^c Stuckenberg, B. R. (1963). "The genus Lonchoptera Meigen in Southern Africa". Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa (Print). 26: 129–143.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Andersson, H. (1971). "Eight new species of Lonchoptera from Burma (Dipt., Lonchopteridae)". Entomologisk Tidskrift. 92 (3–4): 213–231.
^ Joseph, A.N.T.; Parui, P. (1976). "A New Species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) from India". Oriental Insects (Print). 10 (2). Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India: 291–293. doi:10.1080/00305316.1976.10434910.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Andersson, H. (1991). Soós, Á.; Papp, L. (eds.). Lonchopteridae in Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 7. Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Natural History Museum. pp. 139–142.
^ Smith, K.G.V. (1974). "A striking new species of Lonchoptera (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo". Journal of Natural History (Print). 8 (2): 235–237. Bibcode:1974JNatH...8..235S. doi:10.1080/00222937400770211.
^ Collin, J. E. (1938). "The British species of Lonchoptera (Diptera)". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine (Print). Vol. 74. pp. 60–65.
^ Whittington, A. E.; Beuk, P. L. T. (2022). "A description of a new species of Western Palaearctic Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera, Lonchopteridae) from Georgia". ZooNova (Print). Vol. 20. pp. 1–18.
^ ^a ^b Whittington, A. E. (1991). Two new Afrotropical species of Lonchoptera Meigen (Diptera: Lonchopteridae) (Print). Vol. 32. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. pp. 205–214.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Zwick, P. (2004). "Lonchoptera vaillanti sp. nov., a new fly from Switzerland (Diptera: Lonchopteridae)". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Gessellschaft. 77: 133–136.