Gymnosoma is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.[8]
Gymnosoma | |
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Gymnosoma nudifrons male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Tachinidae |
Subfamily: | Phasiinae |
Tribe: | Gymnosomatini |
Genus: | Gymnosoma Meigen, 1803[1] |
Type species | |
Musca rotundata | |
Synonyms | |
The name "Gymnosoma" literally translates as "naked body",[9] 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.