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Mascaromyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to the western Indian Ocean islands. It is named after the main distribution of the genus, the islands of the submarine Mascarene Plateau, combining it with "myia" (the Greek word for fly).

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilyDolichopodidae

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Mascaromyia is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to the western Indian Ocean islands. It is named after the main distribution of the genus, the islands of the submarine Mascarene Plateau, combining it with "myia" (the Greek word for fly).

==Species== Mascaromyia albitarsis (Parent) Mascaromyia alexisi Grichanov Mascaromyia amplicaudata (Lamb, 1922) Mascaromyia babichae Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia bebourensis Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia bickeli Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia brooksi Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia courtoisi Grichanov, 2020 Mascaromyia cummingi Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia desjardinsi (Macquart, 1842) Mascaromyia duplicata (Parent, 1932) Mascaromyia dytei Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia frolovi Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia grandicaudata (Lamb, 1922) Mascaromyia grimaldii Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia hutsoni Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia indistincta (Lamb, 1922) Mascaromyia leptogaster (Thomson, 1869) Mascaromyia loici Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia magnicaudata (Lamb, 1922) Mascaromyia makhotkini Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia martirei Grichanov, 2017 Mascaromyia mauritiensis (Parent, 1939) Mascaromyia michaeli Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia parallela (Macquart, 1842) Mascaromyia pollicifera (Lamb, 1922) Mascaromyia rochati Grichanov, 2020 Mascaromyia rufiventris (Macquart, 1842) Mascaromyia shabuninae Grichanov, 1996 Mascaromyia tatyanae Grichanov, 2004 Mascaromyia vagabunda (Lamb, 1926)

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