| Trigonospila | |
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| Trigonospila brevifacies | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tachinidae |
| Subfamily: | Exoristinae |
| Tribe: | Blondeliini |
| Genus: | Trigonospila Pokorny, 1886 |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Panacemyia Townsend, 1919 Zosteromyia Brauer & Bergenstamm 1891, Zosteromyiopsis Townsend, 1933 |
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Trigonospila is a small genus of flies in the tribe Blondeliini of the Family Tachinidae[2]. Trigonospila is native to, but not endemic in, Australia and common in parts of the Australian landscape. Species can often be found resting on the upper surface of vegetation. The genus can be found in other parts of the world including Europe.
Trigonospila are strikingly patterned flies; primarily black with pearly whitish to golden transverse bars on the thorax and abdomen. There are two whitish bars on the thorax; one adjacent to the transverse suture, and the second adjacent to the scutellum. There may also be a white triangle on the tip of the scutellum, and the subscutellum is usually white. Abdominal colouration varies between species however it is typical that there are three whitish bars on the abdomen; one at the anterior margin of the third, fourth, and fifth abdominal tergite. The width of these bars differs between species[3].