Cistogaster

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image =Cistogaster globosa.jpg

| image_caption =Cistogaster globosa

| taxon = Cistogaster

| authority = Latreille, 1829{{cite book |last1=Latreille |first1=Pierre André |title=Suite et findes insectes. In Cuvier, [G.L.C. F.D.], Le regne animal|volume= V|date=1829 |publisher=Deterville et Crochard |location=Paris |pages=xxiv + 556}}

| type_species = Syrphus globosa

| type_species_authority =Fabricius, 1775{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=J.C. |title=Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. |date=1775 |publisher=Kortii |location=Flensbvrgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] |pages=[32] + 832 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/82400#page/5/mode/1up |access-date=20 February 2021}}

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| synonyms = *Pallasia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=André Jean Baptiste |title=Essai sur les myodaires |journal=Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique |date=1830 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1–813 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=15 July 2018}}

• Palasia Rondani, 1862{{cite book |last1=Rondani |first1=C |title=Dipterologiae italicae prodromus (Vol. V). Species italicae ordinis dipterorum in genera characteribus definita, ordinatim collectae, methodo analitica distinctae, et novis vel minus cognitis descriptis. Pars quarta. Muscidae, Phasiinae–Dexinae–Muscinae–Stomoxidinae |date=1862 |volume=5 |publisher=Grazioli P |location=Parmae [= Parma] |pages=1–239 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34087#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=26 June 2021}}
• Clistogaster Neuhaus, 1886{{cite book |last1=Neuhaus |first1=G.H. |title=Diptera Marchica. Systematisches Verzeichniss der Zweiflugler (mücken und Fliegen) der Mark Brandenburg. Mit kurzer Beschreibung und analytischen Bestimmungs-Tabellen |publisher=Nicolai |location=Berlin |pages=[ii] + xvi + 371 pp., 6 pls}}
• Clitogaster Neuhaus, 1886
• Clystogaster Neuhaus, 1886
• Cystogaster Bezzi & Stein, 1907{{cite book |last1=Bezzi |first1=Mario |last2=Stein |first2=Paul |title=Cyclorrapha Aschiza. Cyclorrapha Schizophora: Schizometopa. Pp. 1-188; 189-825. In Becker, T., Bezzi, M., Kertesz, K., & Stein, P. (eds.), Katalog der palaarktischen Dipteren |volume = 3 |date=1907 |location=Budapest |pages=1–828}}

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Cistogaster is a genus of tachinid flies in the family Tachinidae.{{cite book|author=Belshaw, R.|year=1993|title=Diptera: Tachinidae|pages=170pp|publisher= Royal Entomological Society of London | series = Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects| volume = 10 pt 4ai }} Known hosts are Hemiptera of the genus Aelia sp. (family Pentatomidae).{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Shannon |first2=J. Henderson |last3=D. Monty |first3=Wood |title=World Checklist of the Tachinidae |url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=28 February 2022 |date=5 March 2020}}