Cyrturella
Introduction '''''Cyrturella''''' is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It comprises two species from the Palearctic realm, ''Cyrturella albosetosa'' and ''Cyrturella nigrosetosa'', though the former is considered rare in its range and the latter is known from only one female collected in the Sinai Peninsula. Adults are tiny in size, having a body length of about 1 mm.The genus was created by Octave Parent in 1938 for the species ''Micromorphus albosetosus'', and was originally given the name ''Cyrtura''. This name for the genus was already in use by the extinct stem-turtle genus ''Cyrtura'', so Parent's genus was renamed to ''Cyrturella'' by James Edward Collin in 1952.
Species * ''Cyrturella albosetosa'' (Strobl, 1909) – Spain, England, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, ?France* ''Cyrturella nigrosetosa'' Grichanov, 2016 – Egypt: Sinai Peninsula''Cyrturella orientalis'' Hollis, 1964 was moved to ''Paramedetera''.
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