{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Acanthocera exstincta.jpg | image_caption = ''Acanthocera exstincta'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Acanthocera | authority = Macquart, 1834<ref name="Macquart1834">{{cite book|last1=Macquart|first1=P. J. M.|title=Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere |date=1834|publisher=Roret| location =Paris| pages=578 + 8 pp., 12 pls}}</ref> | type_species = ''Tabanus longicornis'' | type_species_authority = Fabricius, 1775<ref name="Fabricius1775">{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=J.C. |title=Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. |date=1775 |publisher=Kortii |location=Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] |pages=[32] + 832 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Algemaria'' <small>Gistel, 1848</small><ref name="Gistel1848">{{cite book |last1=Gistel |first1=J.N.F.X. |title=Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs fur hohere Schulen |date=1848 |publisher=R. Hoffmann |location=Stuttgart |pages=xvi + 216 + [4] pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> * ''Spheciogaster'' <small>Enderlein, 1922</small><ref name="Enderlein1922">{{cite journal |last1=Enderlein |first1=G. |title=Ein neues Tabanidensystem |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1922 |volume=10 |pages=333–351 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11848849#page/347/mode/1up |access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref> }}
'''''Acanthocera''''' is a genus of flies belonging to the family Tabanidae.<ref name="Moucha1976">{{cite journal |last1=Moucha |first1=J. |title=Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue. |journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae Supplements |date=1976 |volume=7 |pages=1–320 |url=https://www.aemnp.eu/data/article-975/956-7_0_7.pdf |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref><ref name=Burger1995>{{Cite journal | title = Catalog of Tabanidae (Diptera) in North America north of Mexico | date = 1995 | last1 = Burger | first1 = J. F. |journal=International Contributions on Entomology|volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–100| publisher = Associated Publishers}}</ref><ref name="FairchildBurger1994">{{cite journal |last1=Fairchild |first1=G.B. |last2=Burger |first2=J.F. |title=A catalog of the Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Americas south of the United States |journal=Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute |date=1994 |volume=55 |pages=vii + 249}}</ref>
The species of this genus are found in South America.
==Species== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *''Acanthocera anacantha'' <small>Lutz & Neiva, 1915</small><ref name="Lutz1915"/> *''Acanthocera aureoscutellata'' <small>Henriques & Rafael, 1992</small><ref name="HenriquesRafael1992">{{cite journal |last1=Henriques |first1=Augusto Loureiro |last2=Rafael |first2=J.A. |title=Notes on the Neotropical genus ''Acanthocera'' Macquart (Diptera Tabanidae) with description of four new species |journal=Go Eldiana Zoologia |date=1992 |volume=13 |pages=1–13 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281373859 |access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref> *''Acanthocera bequaerti'' <small>(Fairchild, 1964)</small><ref name="Fairchild1964b">{{cite journal |last1=Fairchild |first1=G.B. |title=A new genus and species of Neotropical horselfy (Diptera: Tabanidae) |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |date=1964 |volume=70 (1963) |pages=193–196 |url=https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1963/047356.pdf |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref> *''Acanthocera bicincta'' <small>Henriques & Rafael, 1992</small><ref name="HenriquesRafael1992"/> *''Acanthocera coarctata'' <small>(Wiedemann, 1828)</small><ref name="Wiedemann1828">{{cite book |last1=Wiedemann |first1=Christian Rudolph Wilhelm |title=Aussereuropäische zweiflügelige Insekten. Als Fortsetzung des Meigenschen Werks |date=1828 |publisher=Zweiter Theil. Schulz |location=Hamm |pages=xxxii + 608 pp., 7 pls }}</ref> *''Acanthocera distincta'' <small>Henriques & Rafael, 1995</small><ref name="HenriquesRafael1995">{{cite journal |last1=Henriques |first1=Augusto Loureiro |last2=Rafael |first2=José A |title=Revisao do genero Neotropical ''Acanthocera'' Macquart (Diptera: Tabanidae) |journal=Acta Amazonica |date=1995 |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=403–440 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281781791 |access-date=23 November 2022 |doi=10.1590/1809-43921993234440 |doi-access=free}}</ref> *''Acanthocera exstincta'' <small>(Wiedemann, 1828)</small><ref name="Wiedemann1828"/> *''Acanthocera fairchildi'' <small>Henriques & Rafael, 1992</small><ref name="HenriquesRafael1992"/> *''Acanthocera gorayebi'' <small>Henriques & Rafael, 1992</small><ref name="HenriquesRafael1992"/> *''Acanthocera inopinatus'' <small>(Fairchild, 1972)</small><ref name="Fairchild1972">{{cite journal |last1=Fairchild |first1=G.B. |title=A new species of ''Querbetia'' (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Peru |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |date=1972 |volume=79 |issue=3 |pages=213–214 |doi=10.1155/1972/90764 |doi-access=free|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27372685 |access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref> *''Acanthocera intermedia'' <small>Lutz, 1915</small><ref name="Lutz1915">{{cite journal |last1=Lutz |first1=A. |title=Tabanidas do Brasil e alguns estados vizinhos |journal=Segunda Memória, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz |date=1915 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=51–119|doi=10.1590/S0074-02761915000100003 }}</ref> *''Acanthocera kroberi'' <small>Fairchild, 1939</small><ref name="Fairchild1939">{{cite journal |last1=Fairchild |first1=G.B. |title=Notes on the genus ''Acanthocera'' Macquart (Dipt. Tabanidae) |journal=Revista de Entomologica |date=1939 |volume=10 |pages=14–27}}</ref> *''Acanthocera longicornis'' <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small><ref name="Fabricius1775"/> *''Acanthocera lutzi'' <small>(Enderlein, 1922)</small><ref name="Enderlein1922">{{cite journal |last1=Enderlein |first1=G. |title=Ein neues Tabanidensystem |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin |date=1922 |volume=10 |pages=333–351 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11848849#page/347/mode/1up |access-date=7 July 2022}}</ref> *''Acanthocera marginalis'' <small>Walker, 1854</small><ref name="Walker1854">{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. [=Supplement I] |date=1854 |publisher=British Museum |location=London |pages=1–330}}</ref> *''Acanthocera polistiformis'' <small>Fairchild, 1961</small><ref name="Fairchild1961">{{cite journal |last1=Fairchild |first1=G.B. |title=Insecta Amapaensis - Diptera, Tabanidae |journal=Studia Entomologica |date=1961 |volume=4 |pages=433–448 |url=http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/BiblioGorgas/pdf/Insecta%20Amapaensia%20Diptera%20Tabanidae%20by%20G%20B%20Fairchild..pdf |access-date=13 November 2022 |archive-date=13 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113173843/http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/BiblioGorgas/pdf/Insecta%20Amapaensia%20Diptera%20Tabanidae%20by%20G%20B%20Fairchild..pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> *''Acanthocera quinquecincta'' <small>Lutz, 1915</small><ref name="Lutz1915"/> *''Acanthocera vespiformis'' <small>Burger, 2002</small><ref name="Burger2002">{{cite journal |last1=Burger |first1=J.F. |title=Description of five new species of Tabanidae (Diptera) from Costa Rica and revised keys to species for the genera ''Fidena'' Walker, ''Scione'' Walker, and ''Chrysops'' Meigen in Costa Rica |journal=Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington |date=2002 |volume=104 |issue=4 |pages=928–940}}</ref> {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Tabanidae Category:Taxa named by Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart Category:Flies of South America Category:Tabanoidea genera
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