Babindella

Babindella is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae from Australia. It is the only genus in the subfamily Babindellinae.

==Discovery and research== Specimens of Babindella were first discovered within the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra and the Australian Museum in Sydney. They were recognised as unusual because of the inflated and symmetrical male postabdomen (the terminal segments of the abdomen containing the anal and genital segments) with the seventh and eighth abdominal segments fused, unlike all other dolichopodids known at the time which had an asymmetrical postabdomen with unfused seventh and eighth abdominal segments. This distinctive postabdomen lead Daniel J. Bickel in 1987 to describe a new genus, Babindella, and place it within its own subfamily, Babindellinae. The genus was named after Babinda, the type locality of the type species, B. physoura.