''Entomophaga'' is a genus of
flies
Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...
in the family
Tachinidae
The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true fly, flies within the insect order Fly, Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Over 1,300 species have been described in North America alone. Insects in t ...
.
It was reviewed by T. Tachi and H. Shima in 2006 and was found to be
paraphyletic
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages. The grouping is said to be paraphyletic ''with respect to'' the excluded subgroups. In co ...
; it was also found to form a
monophyletic
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria:
# the grouping contains its own most recent co ...
group with ''
Proceromyia''.
Species
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Entomophaga exoleta''
( Meigen, 1824)
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Entomophaga nigrohalterata''
( Villeneuve, 1921)
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Entomophaga ussuriensis''
Tachi & Shima, 2006
*''
Entomophaga vernalis''
Tachi & Shima, 2006
References
Tachininae
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Paolo Lioy
Diptera of Asia
Diptera of Europe
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