Microchaetina arida

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| genus = Microchaetina

| species = arida

| authority = (Townsend, 1911){{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Announcement of further results secured in the study of muscoid flies |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |date=1911 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=127–152 |doi=10.1093/aesa/4.2.127 }}

| synonyms = *Almugmyia arida Townsend, 1911

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Microchaetina arida is a species of fly in the family Tachinidae.{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Henderson |first2=Shannon J. |first3=D. Monty |last3=Wood |title=Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World|url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=18 December 2023 |date=5 March 2020}} The species is found in Peru.{{cite journal |last1=Aldrich |first1=J.M. |title=Notes on muscoid flies with retracted hind crossvein, with key and several new genera and species |journal=Transactions of the American Entomological Society |volume=52 |pages=13 |year=1926 |issue=1 |jstor=25077148 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25077148}}