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Gymnosoma
Sign in to saveGymnosoma is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyTachinidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 110
- With media
- 24
- Family
- Tachinidae
- Collections
- MSU, MNA, DUGWAY, CSU, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Gymnosoma is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.
The name "Gymnosoma" literally translates as "naked body", and presumably refers to the fact that some species in the genus are less conspicuously bristly than most species of flies in the family Tachinidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gymnosoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.