Microphorinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is part of an expanded concept of the family, Dolichopodidae sensu lato, though it was previously considered a subfamily of Empididae or a family of its own.
Microphorinae is a subfamily of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is part of an expanded concept of the family, Dolichopodidae sensu lato, though it was previously considered a subfamily of Empididae or a family of its own.
==Genera== The subfamily includes seven genera, two extant and five extinct: †Avenaphora Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999 – Early Cretaceous †Curvus Kaddumi, 2005 – Jordanian amber, Albian †Meghyperiella Meunier, 1908 – Baltic amber and Rovno amber, Eocene Microphor Macquart, 1827 †Microphorites Hennig, 1971 – Early Cretaceous-Eocene †Pristinmicrophor Tang, Shi, Wang & Yang, 2019 – Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian Schistostoma Becker, 1902
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).