Actocetor

Actocetor
Actocetor indicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Ephydridae
Subfamily:	Discomyzinae
Tribe:	Discomyzini
Genus:	Actocetor Becker, 1903
Type species
Ephydra margaritata

Actocetor is a genus of shore flies in the family Ephydridae. It was described by Theodor Becker in 1903.

Species

There are seven recognized species in the genus

• Actocetor (Poecilostenia):
  • Actocetor decemguttatus (Bezzi, 1908) - Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal
  • Actocetor lindneri (Wirth, 1955) - Kenya, Tanzania
  • Actocetor yaromi (Dikow and Mathis, 2002) - Ethiopia

• Actocetor (Actocetor):
  • Actocetor afrus (Dikow and Mathis, 2002) - Liberia and Senegal
  • Actocetor hova (Soika, 1956) - Madagascar
  • Actocetor indicus (Wiedemann, 1824) - India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Israel, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Canary Islands, Seychelles and Cape Verde
  • Actocetor nigrifinis (Walker, 1860) - India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand

Note: In Dikow & Mathis (2002) the senior objective homonym Actocetor beckeri de Meijere, 1916 is then (p.261) treated as a junior subjective synonym of Actocetor nigrifinis (Walker, 1860). In contrast, the junior objective homonym Actocetor beckeri Hendel, 1917 [replaced by Actocetor hendeli de Meijere, 1924: 202] is then (p.272) treated as a junior subjective synonym of Actocetor indicus (Wiedemann, 1824).

References

Further reading

• Kirk-Spriggs & Sinclair (2021). Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Volume 3. Brachycera–Cyclorrhapha, excluding Calyptratae. SANBI, South Africa. p.100]