Kaurimyia is a monotypic genus of fly belonging to the family Apsilocephalidae.

Both the genus and species were first described by Shaun L. Winterton and Michael Edward Irwin in 2008.

The genus and species were both identified by Shaun L. Winterton and Michael Edward Irwin in 2008, based on a holotype collected by Stephen E. Thorpe from Te Piringa / Cascade Kauri in the Waitākere Ranges west of Auckland, New Zealand.

[3] Winterton and Irwin named the genus after kauri forests, where the type species K. thorpei was found, and decided to name the species epithet after Thorpe.

[3] The species has a dark coloured body, with frons wider than its ocellar tubercle, something seen in both males and females.