Taxonomic changes in African Stratiomyidae (Diptera) Author Hauser, Martin Author Woodley, Norman E. Author Fachin, Diego A. text Zootaxa 2017 4263 1 journal volume 33099 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.3 0ec981e7-8ef8-4b1a-b1a4-2380e6583cce 1175-5326 572548 4DD4B6E9-DBBF-46AD-9A55-4325C0AD9586 Genus PTILINOXUS Lindner Ptilinoxus Lindner, 1966b : 20 . Type species, Ptilinoxus fallax Lindner, 1966b , by monotypy. Leucacron Lindner, 1966b : 19 . Type species, Leucacron interruptum Lindner, 1966b , by monotypy. Syn. nov. Acroleuca Lindner, 1966b : 20 . Incorrect original spelling. Ptilinoxus interruptum (Lindner) . Comb. nov. Leucacron interruptum Lindner, 1966b : 19 . HT ♀ [ MNHN ]: Madagascar : Périnet. The type specimen of L. interruptum was examined and it shows a constriction at the base of the last antennal flagellomere, which Lindner noted in the description and which is an important character for this genus. Lindner compares Leucacron with the Oriental genus Lophoteles Loew but did not make any comments about the new genus following the description of Leucacron in his paper: Ptilinoxus . We consider the antenna of the only specimen of L. interruptum a teratological deformation and regard this genus as a synonym of Ptilinoxus . After examining a large number of Ptilinoxus (which comprises at least two species), we never found a single specimen with the antennal structure as found in the type specimen of L. interruptum . Lindner (1979) listed two males of Lophoteles plumula from the Comoros [MNHN], but these specimens belong to the genus Ptilinoxus . The only records of Lophoteles in the Afrotropical Region are from the Seychelles ( Kertész 1914 , Woodley 2009 ).