Gymnosoma

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Gymnosoma is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.[8]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Tachinidae
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Gymnosoma
Gymnosoma nudifrons
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Phasiinae
Tribe: Gymnosomatini
Genus: Gymnosoma
Meigen, 1803[1]
Type species
Musca rotundata
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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.

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