''Pterodontia misella'' is a species of small-headed flies (insects in the family Acroceridae). It is very close in appearance to '' Pterodontia flavipes'', and was considered a synonym of it by

Curtis Williams Sabrosky Curtis Williams Sabrosky (3 April 1910, Sturgis, Michigan – 5 October 1997) was an American entomologist. He specialized in Diptera, especially Chloropidae. Sabrosky worked at the Systematic Entomology Laboratory of United States Departme ...

in 1948. However, this synonymy has not been adopted by later authors, and ''P. misella'' is still recognised as a distinct species.

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Acroceridae Articles created by Qbugbot Taxa named by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken Insects described in 1877 {{Nemestrinoidea-stub