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Subfamily Exoristinae

Bristly Fly on my Hand Tachnid Fly I believe unknown fly 6025993 Blondeliini 7009497 - Leschenaultia 8008492 - Gonia Odd Fly - Gonia Leschenaultia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Tachinidae
Subfamily Exoristinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Goniinae
Numbers
one of 4 subfamilies in this family in North America listed by O'Hara and Wood
Internet References
Tachinidae of America North of Mexico includes a PDF doc listing all species and synonyms, arranged by subamily and tribe (James O'Hara and Monty Wood, 2004)
list of tribes with links to genera in each tribe (ITIS)
phylogenetic relationships based on nucelotide sequences of two genes (John Stireman, Systematic Entomology, courtesy blackwell-synergy.com)
subfamily synonym (faunistik.net)