''Prosoeca'' is a genus of tangle-veined flies in the family

Nemestrinidae Nemestrinidae, or tangle-veined flies is a family of flies in the superfamily Nemestrinoidea, closely related to Acroceridae. Larvae are endoparasitoids of either grasshoppers (Trichopsideinae) or scarab beetles (Hirmoneurinae). Some are co ...

. It was described in 1867 by

Ignaz Rudolph Schiner Ignaz Rudolf Schiner (April 17, 1813 – July 6, 1873) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Schiner was born in , Horn and died in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austri ...

. It was assigned to the family

by Frank M. Carpenter in 1992; and to the subfamily Nemestrininae by Mike Mostovski and Xavier Martínez-Delclòs in 2000.

Species

The genus ''Prosoeca'' has at least 41 species: * '' Prosoeca accincta'' (Wiedemann, 1830) * '' Prosoeca atra'' (Macquart, 1846) * '' Prosoeca beckeri'' Lichtwardt, 1920 * '' Prosoeca caffraria'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca circumdata'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca connexa'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca difficile'' (Bequaert, 1925) * '' Prosoeca flavipennis'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca florigera'' (Scudder, 1878) * '' Prosoeca fusca'' (Loew, 1860) * '' Prosoeca ganglbaueri'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca handlirschi'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca ignita'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca lata'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca lichtwardti'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca longipennis'' (Loew, 1858) * '' Prosoeca longirostris'' (Macquart, 1846) * '' Prosoeca macularis'' (Wiedemann, 1828) * '' Prosoeca major'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca marinusi'' Barraclough, Colville, Karolyi & Krenn, 2018 * '' Prosoeca minimum'' (Bezzi, 1924) * '' Prosoeca nigripes'' (Macquart, 1840) * '' Prosoeca nitidula'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca obscura'' (Westwood, 1835) * '' Prosoeca oldroydi'' Hull, 1958 * '' Prosoeca olivacea'' Brunetti, 1929 * '' Prosoeca ornata'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca peringueyi'' Lichtwardt, 1920 * '' Prosoeca pygmea'' Hull, 1958 * '' Prosoeca quinque'' Lichtwardt, 1920 * '' Prosoeca robusta'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca rubicunda'' Bezzi, 1924 * '' Prosoeca saxea'' Mostovski & Martínez-Delclòs, 2000 * '' Prosoeca sublineata'' Bequaert, 1926 * '' Prosoeca torquata'' Theron, 2020 * '' Prosoeca umbrosa'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca variabilis'' (Loew, 1858) * '' Prosoeca variegata'' (Loew, 1858) * '' Prosoeca westermanni'' (Wiedemann, 1821) * '' Prosoeca willowmorensis'' Lichtwardt, 1910 * '' Prosoeca zuluensis'' Lichtwardt, 1920 One extinct species in a subgenus of ''Prosoeca'' exists: * †'' Prosoeca (Palembolus) saxea'' Mostovski & Martínez-Delclòs, 2000

References

Nemestrinoidea Nemestrinoidea genera Taxa named by Ignaz Rudolph Schiner {{Nemestrinoidea-stub