| Myrmecothea | |
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| Myrmecothea myrmecoides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Ulidiidae |
| Subfamily: | Otitinae |
| Tribe: | Cephaliini |
| Genus: | Myrmecothea Hendel, 1910 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Cephalia myrmecoides | |
Myrmecothea is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.
Friedrich Hermann Loew was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the United States.
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Gabriel Strobl was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and entomologist who specialised in Diptera.
Urophora is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Noeeta is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Oedopa is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.
Myrmecothea myrmecoides is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Cephalia of the family Ulidiidae.
Chrysogaster is a genus of small hoverflies in the subfamily Eristalinae. They are dark or black with shiny colourful reflections and can often be seen visiting flowers in damp marshy areas where the aquatic larvae live. Species in the related genera Melanogaster, Orthonevra, Lejogaster and Riponnensia were formerly treated as members of Chrysogaster.
Empis is a genus of dance fly found in the fly family Empididae.
Eutherini is a tribe of flies in the family Tachinidae.
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Callopistromyia is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.
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Phaeobalia is a genus of flies in the family Empididae.
Wiedemannia is a genus of flies in the family Empididae.
Eutretini is a tribe of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.
Pipunculus is a genus of flies belonging to the family Pipunculidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.
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