Axymyia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Axymyiidae |
Genus: |
Axymyia McAtee, 1921 |
Species: | A. furcata
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Binomial name | |
Axymyia furcata McAtee, 1921
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Axymyia is a genus of nematoceran flies in the family Axymyiidae. It contains only one described species, Axymyia furcata, from eastern North America. [1] [2] [3] A second species, Axymyia japonica Ishida, 1953, is sometimes listed, [4] but this species is now generally placed in the related genus Protaxymyia. [5] [6]