''Entomophaga'' is a genus of
flies in the family
Tachinidae.
It was reviewed by T. Tachi and H. Shima in 2006 and was found to be
paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
; it was also found to form a
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
group with ''
Proceromyia
''Proceromyia'' is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. 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 ...
''.
Species
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E. exoleta''
( Meigen, 1824)
*''
E. nigrohalterata''
(Villeneuve
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* Villeneuve (surname)
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* Villeneuve, Queensland, a town in the Somerset Region
Canada
* Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a Formula One racetrack in Montréal
* Villeneuv ...
, 1921)
*''
E. sufferta''
(Villeneuve
Villeneuve, LaVilleneuve or deVilleneuve may refer to:
People
* Villeneuve (surname)
Places
Australia
* Villeneuve, Queensland, a town in the Somerset Region
Canada
* Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a Formula One racetrack in Montréal
* Villeneuv ...
, 1942)
*''
E. ussuriensis''
Tachi & Shima, 2006
*''
E. vernalis''
Tachi & Shima, 2006
References
Tachininae
Tachinidae genera
Taxa named by Paolo Lioy
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