''Proceromyia'' 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 originally a subgenus of ''
Ceromya'', but was later raised in rank to genus by James E. O'Hara in 1989. It was reviewed by T. Tachi and H. Shima in 2006 and was confirmed to be
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 ...
; it was also found to form a monophyletic group with ''
Entomophaga''.
Species
*''
Proceromyia macronychia''
(Mesnil, 1957)
*''
Proceromyia pubioculata''
(Mesnil & Shima, 1978)
References
Tachininae
Brachycera genera
Diptera of Asia
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