Normyia, Grimaldi, 2016

Grimaldi, David A., 2016, Diverse Orthorrhaphan Flies (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera) In Amber From The Cretaceous Of Myanmar: Brachycera In Cretaceous Amber, Part Vii David A. Grimaldi, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2016 (408), pp. 1-132 : 20-21

Normyia , new genus

DIAGNOSIS: Antenna with 8 flagellomeres, tapered apicad; eyes bare, holoptic in male; palp 2-segmented; no scutellar spines; tibial spurs 0-1-0 or 0-2-0; abdominal tergites 2–6 each with deeply impressed transverse sulci; thorax deep in lateral view; katepisternum pendulous, ventralmost portion nearly reaching to level of mesocoxal apex. R 2+3 gradually converging toward apex of R 1 (not meeting); R 4 slightly sinuous, long (its length relative to length of R 4-5, from where it branches from Rs to tip of R 5) 0.43–0.55 (vs. <0.20, as in Beridinae ); cell d large; M 3 absent; gonostylus with apical and subapical (medial) spines.

TYPE SPECIES: Normyia woodleyi , new species.

ETYMOLOGY: Patronym for Norman Woodley, USDA–Systematic Entomology Laboratory, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the systematics of Stratiomyidae and Diptera in general. The gender of the name is feminine.

COMMENTS: See above.