Major (fly)

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Speciesbox

| genus = Major

| species = minor

| display_parents = 2

| parent_authority = Evenhuis, 2005{{cite journal|last1=Evenhuis|first1=Neal L.|title=A review of the genera comprising species of the genus Eurynogaster sensu Hardy & Kohn, 1964 in Hawai'i (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=Zootaxa|date=2005|volume=1017|issue=1|pages=39–60|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z01017p060f.pdf |accessdate=4 March 2017|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1017.1.5}}

| authority = (Parent, 1938){{cite journal|last1=Parent|first1=O.|title=Quelques dipteres dolichopodides des Iles Hawaii|journal=Konowia|date=1938|volume=16|pages=209–219|url=http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/KON_16_0209-0219.pdf|accessdate=16 July 2015}}

| synonyms =

• Paraliancalus minor Parent, 1938
• Eurynogaster minor (Parent, 1938){{cite journal|last1=Parent|first1=L.O.|title=Dolichopodides des Iles Hawaii recuellis par Monsieur FX. Wiliams, principalement au cours de l'annee|journal=Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society|date=1939|volume=10|issue=2|pages=225–249|url=http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/15986/PHES10_225-249.pdf?sequence=1|accessdate=8 July 2015}}

}}

Major is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae, endemic to Hawaii. It contains only one species, Major minor. It is part of the Eurynogaster complex of genera.{{cite journal|first1=Kari Roesch|last1=Goodman|first2=Neal|last2=Evenhuis|first3=Pavla|last3=Bartošová-Sojková|first4=Patrick Michael|last4=O'Grady|year=2016|title=Multiple, independent colonizations of the Hawaiian Archipelago by the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)|journal=PeerJ|volume=4|page=e2704|doi=10.7717/peerj.2704|doi-access=free|pmc=5119231|pmid=27896033}} The generic name is derived from the Latin major ("large"), referring to the extremely large tarsal claws of M. minor.