| Pantophthalmus | |
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| Pantophthalmus frauenfeldi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Pantophthalmidae |
| Genus: | Pantophthalmus Thunberg, 1819 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Pantophthalmus tabaninus | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pantophthalmus is a genus of large, robust flies whose larvae feed on living and dead trees, and contains all but one of the species in the family Pantophthalmidae. [7]