Family Acroceridae
(small-headed flies)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Protostomia (protostomes)
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  Ecdysozoa
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  Phylum Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects, spiders, and relatives)
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  Uniramia
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  Subphylum Hexapoda
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  Class Insecta (insects)
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  Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
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  Superorder Neoptera
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  Holometabola
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  Order Diptera (true flies)
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  Suborder Brachycera (circular-seamed flies, muscoid flies, and short-horned flies)
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  Infraorder Muscomorpha
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  Family Acroceridae (small-headed flies)
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  Subfamily Acrocerinae
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  Genus Acrocera
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  Genus Ogcodes
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  Genus Opsebius
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  Genus Turbopsebius
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  Subfamily Panopinae
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  Genus Eulonchus
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  Genus Lasia
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  Genus Ocnaea
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  Genus Pterodontia
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  Subfamily Philopotinae
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  Genus Philopota