Apsilocephalidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea. It was historically treated as a subfamily within Therevidae, but placed in a separate family in 1991, and subsequently recognized as more distantly related. The family contains three extant genera and at least five extinct genera described from the fossil record.
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Apsilocephalidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Asiloidea. It was historically treated as a subfamily within Therevidae, but placed in a separate family in 1991, and subsequently recognized as more distantly related. The family contains three extant genera and at least five extinct genera described from the fossil record.
==Genera== These six genera belong to the family Apsilocephalidae: Apsilocephala Kröber, 1914 †Burmapsilocephala Gaimari & Mostovski, 2000 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber) Clesthentia White, 1915 Clesthentiella Nagatomi, Saigusa, Nagatomi & Lyneborg, 1991 †Irwinimyia Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber) †Kaurimyia Winterton & Irwin, 2008 †Kumaromyia Grimaldi & Hauser, 2011 †Myanmarpsilocephala Zhang et al., 2018 (Cenomanian, Burmese amber)
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