Culcua
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| Culcua | |
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| A Culcua species from India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Stratiomyidae |
| Subfamily: | Pachygastrinae |
| Genus: | Culcua Walker, 1856[1] |
| Type species | |
| Culcua simulans Walker, 1856[1] | |
Culcua is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.[2] that are found only in the Indomalayan realm. About eleven species have been described. They have a disc-shaped flagellum to the antenna and have a arista or hair arising from it. The scutellum typically has four strong spines and the abdomen is nearly spherical