Senostoma
Sign in to saveSenostoma is a genus of parasitoid tachinid flies in the family Tachinidae. Endemic to Australasia, the flies are medium-sized, bristly, and long-legged.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 77
- Family
- Tachinidae
- Collections
- CSIRO, TMAG
- Recorded in
- Australia
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- Parent taxon
- Tachinidae
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- diurnality
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Senostoma is a genus of parasitoid tachinid flies in the family Tachinidae. Endemic to Australasia, the flies are medium-sized, bristly, and long-legged.
==Taxonomy== French entomologist Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart first described the genus in 1847 in the work "Diptères Exotiques, Nouveaux Ou Peu Connus, Supplément I", published in ''Memoires de la Societe royale des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts, de Lille. Macquart stated that "Senostoma" signifies "narrow mouth".
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