Chespiritos
Sign in to saveChespiritos is a genus of flies of mostly neotropical distribution, belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae.
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Chespiritos is a genus of flies of mostly neotropical distribution, belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae.
==Species== C. anguineus (Bolivia) C. attenboroughi (Argentina; named after David Attenborough) C. balrogiformis (Peru; named after Balrogs) C. bolanosi (Mexico; named after Roberto Gómez Bolaños) C. calceus (Peru) C. chicobrazos (Costa Rica) C. coronatus (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Trinidad) C. dolabratus (Costa Rica) C. elephantus (Ecuador, Peru) C. extendido (Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela) C. ganchopico (Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Tobago) C. gladiator (Costa Rica) C. hojagrande (Costa Rica, Mexico) C. jamaicensis (Jamaica) C. lepustergum (Costa Rica, Venezuela) C. metroidiformis (Costa Rica; named after Metroids) C. paraiso (Dominican Republic) C. peckorum (Ecuador) C. pervadens (Brazil and the Canary Islands) C. sindecimus (Costa Rica) C. ventrisetis (Brazil, Costa Rica, Venezuela)
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