Metabasis

{{short description|Genus of flies}} {{about|a fly genus|the Aristotelian paradox|metabasis paradox}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Metabasis | authority = Walker, 1851<ref name="Walker1851">{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=Diptera. Part II, pp. 77-156, pls. 3-4. In [Saunders, W. W. (ed.)], Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Vol. 1.|date=1851 |publisher=Van Voorst |location=London |pages=1–474}}</ref> | type_species = ''Metabasis rostratus'' | type_species_authority =Walker, 1851<ref name="Walker1851"/> | synonyms = }}

'''''Metabasis''''' is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.<ref name="Woodley2001">{{cite journal |last1=Woodley |first1=N.E. |title=A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera) |journal=Myia |date=2001 |volume=11 |pages=1–462| url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303225468| access-date=7 December 2022}}</ref>

==Species== *''Metabasis rostratus'' <small>Walker, 1851</small><ref name="Walker1851"/>

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Category:Stratiomyidae Category:Brachycera genera Category:Monotypic Brachycera genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) Category:Flies of South America