Global InformationMegabraula information
| Megabraula | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Superfamily: | Carnoidea |
| Family: | Braulidae |
| Genus: | Megabraula Grimaldi & Underwood, 1986[1] |
| Type species | |
| Megabraula onerosa Grimaldi & Underwood, 1986[1]
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Megabraula is a fly genus in the family Braulidae. These are very unusual flies, wingless and flattened, and barely recognizable as Diptera. Megabraula is found in Nepal and is 3 mm in length. Both species are found in the nests of Apis laboriosa[1]
- ^ a b c Grimaldi, D.; Underwood, B.A. (1986). "Megabraula, a new genus for two new species of Braulidae (Diptera), and a discussion of braulid evolution". Systematic Entomology. 11 (4): 427–438. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1986.tb00534.x. S2CID 84610905.