''Philopota'' is a genus of small-headed flies in the family

Acroceridae The Acroceridae are a small family of odd-looking flies. They have a hump-backed appearance with a strikingly small head, generally with a long proboscis for accessing nectar. They are rare and not widely known. The most frequently applied common ...

. It is the type genus of the subfamily

Philopotinae Philopotinae is a subfamily of small-headed flies. They have an arched body shape, as well as enlarged postpronotal lobes that form a collar behind the head. Their larvae are endoparasites of araneomorph spiders in the subgroup Entelegynae. Gene ...

Species

* '' Philopota amazonensis'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota castanea'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota conica'' Wiedemann, 1830 * '' Philopota costaricensis'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota dissimilis'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota flavimaculata'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota flavolateralis'' Brunetti, 1926 * '' Philopota fuscofemorata'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota grossii'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota histrio''

Erichson Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (26 November 1809 – 18 December 1848) was a German entomologist and doctor. He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in '' Archiv für Naturgeschichte''. When writing in Latin, he latinised ''Wilhelm'' ...

, 1840 * '' Philopota liturata'' Westwood, 1848 * '' Philopota longirostris'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota lugubris'' Williston, 1901 * '' Philopota minuta'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota multivenata'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota schlingeri'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota semicincta'' Schiner, 1868 * '' Philopota tepicensis'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016 * '' Philopota truquii'' Bellardi, 1859 * '' Philopota tuberculata'' Westwood, 1848 * '' Philopota turbinata''

, 1840 * '' Philopota vitrialata'' Gillung & Nihei, 2016

References

Acroceridae Taxa named by Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann Nemestrinoidea genera {{Nemestrinoidea-stub