Bolbomyia

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| image = Bolbomyia wuorentausi.jpg

| image_caption = Bolbomyia wuorentausi

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| taxon = Bolbomyia

| authority = Loew, 1850{{cite web | url=http://diptera.org/Nomenclator/Details/265577 | title=Nomenclator Detail Record }}

| parent_authority =Stuckenberg, 2001

| synonyms = *Misgomyia Coquillett, 1908

• Cekendia Szilády, 1934

| type_species = Bolbomyia nana

| type_species_authority = Loew, 1862

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Bolbomyia is a genus of snipe flies, and the sole genus in the family Bolbomyiidae; until 2010, it was placed in the family Rhagionidae.{{Cite journal|last=Kerr|first=Peter H.|date=2010|title=Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera).|journal=Zootaxa|volume=2592|pages=1–133|doi=|issn=|url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2592.1.1|language=en}} They are a small 2 to 3.5 mm, brown or black in color, with lightly infuscate (darkened) wings. They are restricted to the north temperate region of North America, Japan and Russian Far East (Kamchatka).{{Cite journal|last=Webb|first=Donald W.|date=1987|title=A revision of the genus Bolbomyia (Diptera: Rhagionidae) of the world|journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society|series=|volume=60|issue=3|pages=433–445|doi=10.2307/25084921|issn=|url=|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Webb|first=Donald W.|date=1969|title=A new and unusual species of Bolbomyia (Diptera: Rhagionidae)

|journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society|series=|volume=42|issue=3|pages=285–288|doi=10.2307/25083797|issn=|url=|language=en}}