{{short description|Species of soldier fly}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Ptecticus | species = testaceus | authority = (Fabricius, 1805<ref name="Fabricius1805">{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=Johann Christian |title=Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species |date=1805 |publisher=Apud Carolum Reichard |location=Bransvigae |pages=i-xiv, 1–373| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53432#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=5 June 2020}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = *''Musca elongata'' <small>Fabricius, 1794</small><ref name="Fabricius1794">{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=J.C. |title=Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4 |date=1794 |publisher=C. G. Proft |location=Hafniae [=Copenhagen] |pages=[6] + 472 + [5] pp}}</ref> *''Sargus testaceus'' <small>Fabricius, 1805</small><ref name="Fabricius1805"/> *''Ptecticus testaceous'' <small>James & McFadden, 1982</small><ref name="JamesMcFadden1982">{{cite journal|last1=James|first1=Maurice T.|last2=McFadden|first2=Max W.|title=The Sarginae (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) of Middle America|journal=Melanderia|date=1982|volume=40|pages=x + 50}}</ref> }}
'''''Ptecticus testaceus''''' is a species of soldier fly in the family Stratiomyidae.<ref name="Woodley2001">{{cite journal |last1=Woodley |first1=N.E. |title=A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera) |journal=Myia |date=2001 |volume=11 |pages=1–462| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303225468| access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>
==Distribution== Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Panama.
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Category:Stratiomyidae Category:Insects described in 1805 Category:Flies of North America Category:Flies of South America Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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