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Cestonioptera

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Cestonioptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Exoristinae
Tribe: Eryciini
Genus: Cestonioptera
Villeneuve, 1939[1]
Type species
Cestonioptera mesnili
Synonyms
  • Cestonoptera Cooper & O’Hara, 1996[2]

Cestonioptera is a monotypic genus[3] of bristle flies in the family Tachinidae.[4]

Species

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Distribution

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This genus has a Palearctic distribution[3] and has been sighted in Israel and Tunisia.

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Villeneuve J (1939). "Présentation de quelques myodaires supérieurs inédits". Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 79: 347–354.
  2. Cooper, B.E.; O’Hara, J.E. (1996). Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Part 4. Tachinidae. Ottawa: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Publication A53-1918/B. p. 94.
  3. 1 2 O’Hara, James. "WORLD GENERA OF THE TACHINIDAE (DIPTERA) AND THEIR REGIONAL OCCURRENCE" (PDF).
  4. O’Hara, James E.; Shannon, J. Henderson; D. Monty, Wood (5 March 2020). "World Checklist of the Tachinidae" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 28 February 2022.