Cephalia

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten Tome 5 1826 Tab 47.jpg

| image_caption = Cepahalia in Meigen Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten 1826

| taxon=Cephalia

| authority = Meigen, 1826{{cite book |last1=Meigen |first1=J.W. |title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten |date=1826 |publisher=Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann |location=Hamm |pages=xii + 412 pp., pls. 42–54}}

| type_species = Cephalia nigripes

| type_species_authority = Meigen, 1826

| display_parents = 2

| synonyms= *Myrmecomya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=André Jean Baptiste |title=Essai sur les myodaires |journal=Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique |date=1830 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1–813 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=15 July 2018}}

• Myrmecomyia Agassiz, 1846{{cite book |last1=Agassiz |first1=J.L.R. |title=Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis |date=1846 |publisher=Jent & Gassmann |location=Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland] |pages=viii + 393}}
• Myrmecomyia Loew, 1873{{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=Hermann |title=Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part III. |journal=Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections |date=1873 |volume=11 |pages=vii + 351 +XIII pp., 4 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90071#page/6/mode/1up |access-date=26 January 2021}}

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Cephalia is a genus of picture-winged flies in the family Ulidiidae.