Muscidideicus

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Speciesbox

| genus = Muscidideicus

| species = praetextatus

| display_parents = 2

| parent_authority = Becker, 1917{{cite journal|last1=Becker|first1=T.|title=Dipterologische Studien. Erster Teil|journal=Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum|date=1917|volume=102|pages=113–361|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41059689}}

| authority = (Haliday, 1855){{cite journal|last1=Haliday|first1=A. H.|title=Descriptions of insects figured, and references to plates illustrating the notes on Kerry insects|journal=Natural History Review|date=1855|volume=2|pages=59–64|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2512862#page/191/mode/1up|accessdate=1 March 2016}}

| synonyms =

• Dolichopus praetextatus Haliday, 1855
• Gymnopternus praetextatus (Haliday, 1855)
• Hercostomus marginatus Lichtwardt, 1896
• Hercostomus praetextatus (Haliday, 1855)
• Muscidideicus marginatus (Lichtwardt, 1896)
• Tachytrechus praetextatus (Haliday, 1855)

}}

Muscidideicus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.{{cite book|last1=Yang|first1=D.|last2=Zhu|first2=Y.|last3=Wang|first3=M.|last4=Zhang|first4=L.|title=World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).|date=2006|publisher=China Agricultural University Press|location=Beijing|isbn=9787811171020|pages=1–704}} It contains a single species, Muscidideicus praetextatus, which is found only in the Western Palaearctic.{{cite journal|first=Scott E.|last=Brooks|year=2005|title=Systematics and phylogeny of Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/z00857f.pdf|journal=Zootaxa|volume=857|pages=1–158|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.857.1.1}}