Brachiopterna

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Brachiopterna

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| authority = Bezzi, 1924{{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=M. |title=Further notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies, with keys to all the known genera and species [part] |journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research |date=1924 |volume=15 |pages=73–118|doi=10.1017/S0007485300046162 }}

| type_species = Brachiopterna katonae

| type_species_authority = Bezzi, 1924

| synonyms = *Cyanodesmops Munro, 1931{{cite journal |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=New Trypetidae (Dipt.) from South Africa, II |journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research |date=1931 |volume=22 |pages=115–126|doi=10.1017/S0007485300029801 }}

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Brachiopterna is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.{{cite journal |last1=Norrbom |first1=A.L. |last2=Carroll |first2=L.E. |last3=Thompson |first3=F.C. |last4=White |first4=I.M |last5=Freidberg |first5=A. |title=Systematic Database of Names. Pp. 65-252. In Thompson, F. C. (ed.), Fruit Fly Expert Identification System and Systematic Information Database. |journal=Myia |date=1999 |volume=9 |pages=vii + 524}} Named after the Hungarian zoologist, Kalman Kittenberger's pseudonym, Katona.