Actocetor

Actocetor
Actocetor indicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

There are seven recognized species in the genus ^[2] -

• Actocetor afrus (Dikow and Mathis, 2002) - Liberia and Senegal
• Actocetor decemguttatus (Bezzi, 1908) - Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, 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 lindneri (Wirth, 1955) - Kenya, Tanzania
• Actocetor nigrifinis (Walker, 1860) - India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand
• Actocetor yaromi (Dikow and Mathis, 2002) - Ethiopia

References

1. "Genus Actocetor". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
2. Dikow, T. (2002). "A Revision and Phylogenetic study of Actocetor Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 104 (2): 249–290.
3. "Actocetor". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-08-17.