''Apystomyia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

flies Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced m ...

in the

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

Apystomyiidae Apystomyiidae is a small family (biology), family of fly, flies containing the living genus ''Apystomyia'' and the extinct genera ''Apystomimus'' and ''Hilarimorphites''. The single living Apystomyiidae species, ''Apystomyia elinguis'', is native ...

. The genus contains the single living Apystomyiidae species, ''Apystomyia elinguis'', which is primarily found in California. Details of its life history are largely unknown. The extinct genus '' Hilarimorphites'' is known from the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...

Burmese and

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ambers. Formerly placed in the

Asiloidea The Asiloidea comprise a very large superfamily insects in the order Diptera, the true flies. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring worldwide. It includes the family Bombyliidae, the bee flies, which are parasitoids, and the Asilidae, th ...

, molecular phylogenetic studies in 2010 placed the genus unambiguously as a sister of the

Cyclorrhapha Cyclorrhapha is an unranked taxon within the infraorder Muscomorpha. They are called "Cyclorrhapha" ('circular-seamed flies') with reference to the circular aperture through which the adult escapes the puparium. This is a circumscriptional name t ...

within the clade

Eremoneura Eremoneura is a clade of flies within the Brachycera that includes the Empidoidea and the Cyclorrhapha and is a sister of the Asilomorpha. They are thought to have evolved around the Mesozoic. The group includes fossils described in the genus ' ...

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* Monotypic Brachycera genera Asiloidea genera Taxa named by Axel Leonard Melander {{Asiloidea-stub