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Genus Gonia

Smal Headed Fly? - Gonia unidentified insects 640 - Gonia Fly - Gonia crassicornis Gonia early prairie Gonia - Gonia Fly - Gonia bristle fly - Gonia Tachinidae, dorsal - Gonia sagax
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Family Tachinidae (Parasitic Flies)
Subfamily Exoristinae
Tribe Goniini
Genus Gonia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Reviewed in(1). Brooks treated the North American species of Gonia sensu lato under 9 genera:
Cystogonia Townsend 1915
Phosococephalops Townsend 1926
Cnephalgonia Townsend 1916
Setigonia Brooks 1944
Knabia Townsend 1915
Fuscigonia Brooks 1944
Rhedia Robineau-Desvoidy 1820
Onychogonia Brauer & Bergenstamm 1889
Gonia Meigen 1803
All except Onychogonia are currently included within Gonia.(2)
Explanation of Names
Gonia Meigen 1803
Salmacia Meigen 1800 is a senior synonym suppressed by the ICZN (1963, Opinion 678)
Numbers
28 spp. in our area(2)
Range
worldwide(3)
Food
hosts are mostly Noctuidae(2)
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