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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.

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

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