Pegoplata

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Pegoplata is a genus of flies in the family Anthomyiidae. It belongs to the animal kingdom and is part of the arthropod phylum of insects.

Scientific classification:
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Anthomyiidae
- Subfamily: Pegomyinae
- Tribe: Myopinini
- Genus: Pegoplata (established by Schnabl and Dziedzicki in 1911)

The type species is Pegoplata palpata, described by Seguy in 1937.

Synonyms (older names once used for the same group): Nupedia (Karl, 1930); Nudaria (Karl, 1928); Psiloplastinx (Enderlein, 1936); Gymnogaster (Lioy, 1864). The genus is sometimes still referred to as Nupedia.