Myrmecothea

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Picture-winged Fly - Myrmecothea myrmecoides, Meadowwood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia.jpg

| image_caption = Myrmecothea myrmecoides

| taxon=Myrmecothea

| authority = Hendel, 1910{{cite journal |last1=Hendel |first1=Friedrich Georg |title=Über die Nomenklatur der Acalyptratengattungen nach Th. Beckers Katalog der paläarktischen Dipteren, Bd. 4 |journal=Wiener entomologische Zeitung |date=1910 |volume=29 |pages=307–313 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12086395#page/347/mode/1up |access-date=27 January 2021}}

| type_species = Cephalia myrmecoides

| type_species_authority = Loew, 1860{{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=H. |title=Diptera Americana ab Osten-Sackenio collecta. Decas prima |journal=Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift |date=1860 |volume=4 |pages=79–84 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31290385#page/89/mode/1up |access-date=25 June 2022}}

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