Cestonia
{{short description|Genus of flies}}
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| taxon = Cestonia
| authority = Rondani, 1861{{cite book |last= Rondani|first= C. |date= 1861 |title= Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol. IV. Species Italicae. Pars tertia. Muscidae Tachininarum complementum.|publisher= A. Stocche, Parmae|volume= IV |pages= 174 pp }}
| type_species = Cestonia cineraria
| type_species_authority = Rondani, 1861
| synonyms = *Parerynnia Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1889{{cite journal |last1=Brauer |first1=F. |last2=Bergenstamm |first2=J.E. von |title=Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. IV. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae) |journal=Pars I. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien |date=1889 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=69–180, 11 pls|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7109187#page/115/mode/1up |access-date=8 June 2023}}
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Cestonia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Henderson |first2=Shannon J. |first3=D. Monty |last3=Wood |title=Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World|url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=21 August 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}
Species
- Cestonia canariensis Villeneuve, 1936{{cite journal |last1=Frey |first1=R. |title=Die Dipterenfauna der Kanarischen Inseln und ihre Probleme |journal=Commentat. Biol. Soc. Sci. Fenn. |date=1936 |volume=6 |pages=237}}
- Cestonia cineraria Rondani, 1861
- Cestonia deserticola Richter, 2006{{cite journal |last1=Richter |first1=V.A. |title=On the fauna of the tachinid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) of Turkmenia. II. |journal=Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie |date=2006 |volume=85 |pages=686–690}}
- Cestonia grisella Mesnil, 1963{{cite journal |last1=Mesnil |first1=L.P. |title=Nouveaux tachinaires de la Region Palearctique principalement de l'URSS et du Japon |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique |date=1963 |volume=39 |issue=23 |pages=1–56 |url=https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-1949-1970/39%282%29-1963/irscnb_p4087_rbins17561_39-2_bulletin-24.pdf |access-date=3 July 2023}}
- Cestonia harteni Zeegers, 2007{{cite journal |last1=Zeegers |first1=Theo |title=A first account of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Yemen |journal=Fauna of Arabia |date=2007 |volume=23 |pages=369–419}}
- Cestonia lupicolor Richter, 1974{{cite journal |last1=Richter |first1=V.A. |title=Some tachinids from Mongolian People's Republic |journal= Nasekomye Mongolii [also as Insects of Mongolia] |date=1974 |volume=2 |pages=396–425 |language=Russian}}
- Cestonia rufipes Zeegers, 2007
- Cestonia rutilans Villeneuve, 1929{{cite journal |last1=Villeneuve |first1=J. |title=Diagnoses de Myodaires superieurs inedits |journal=Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique |date=1929 |volume=69 |pages=99–102}}