Chespiritos

Genus of flies

Chespiritos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Sphaeroceridae
Subfamily:	Limosininae
Genus:	Chespiritos Marshall, 2000^[1]
Type species
Chespiritos sindecimus Marshall, 2000^[1]

Chespiritos is a genus of flies of mostly neotropical distribution, belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae (lesser dung flies).^[2]^[3]

Species

C. anguineus Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Bolivia)^[4]
C. attenboroughi Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Argentina; named after David Attenborough)^[4]
C. balrogiformis Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Peru; named after Balrogs)^[4]
C. bolanosi Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Mexico; named after Roberto Gómez Bolaños)^[4]
C. calceus Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Peru)^[4]
C. chicobrazos Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Costa Rica)^[4]
C. coronatus Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Trinidad)^[4]
C. dolabratus Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Costa Rica)^[4]
C. elephantus Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Ecuador, Peru)^[4]
C. extendido Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela)^[4]
C. ganchopico Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Tobago)^[4]
C. gladiator Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Costa Rica)^[4]
C. hojagrande Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Costa Rica, Mexico)^[4]
C. jamaicensis Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Jamaica)^[4]
C. lepustergum Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Costa Rica, Venezuela)^[4]
C. metroidiformis Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Costa Rica; named after Metroids)^[4]
C. paraiso Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Dominican Republic) ^[4]
C. peckorum Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Ecuador)^[4]
C. pervadens Roháček & Buck, 2003 (Brazil and the Canary Islands)^[5]
C. sindecimus Marshall, 2000 (Costa Rica)^[1]
C. ventrisetis Kuwahara & Marshall, 2020 (Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela)^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c Marshall, S. A. (2000). "Chespiritos, a new genus of Limosininae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from Costa Rica". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 102: 609–612. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ Rohček, Jindřich; Marshall, Stephen A.; Norrbom, Allen L.; Buck, Matthias; Quiros, Dora Isabel; Smith, Ian (2001). Roháček, Jindřich (ed.). World Catalog of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera). Opava: Slezské Zemské Muzeum. pp. 1–414. ISBN 978-8086224213. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
^ Marshall, Stephen A.; Roháček, Jindřich; Dong, Hui; Buck, Matthias (2011). "The state of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera: Acalyptratae): a world catalog update covering the years 2000–2010, with new generic synonymy, new combinations, and new distributions" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 51 (1). Pragae: 217–298. ISSN 0374-1036. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Kuwahara, G.K.; Marshall, S.A. (20 April 2020). "A revision of the Neotropical genus Chespiritos (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae)". Eur. J. Entomol. 117: 164–189. doi:10.14411/eje.2020.019.
^ Roháček, Jindřich; Buck, Matthias (2003). "Chespiritos pervadens spec. nov. (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), a remarkable species with disjunct Neotropical-Macaronesian distribution". Studia Dipterologica. 10 (1): 43–50.