Eurosta

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Eurosta solidaginis female.jpg

| image_caption = Eurosta solidaginis female

| taxon = Eurosta

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| authority = Loew, 1873{{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=Hermann |title=Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part III. |journal=Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections |date=1873 |volume=11 |pages=vii + 351 +XIII pp., 4 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/90071#page/6/mode/1up |access-date=26 January 2021}}

| type_species = Acinia solidaginis

| type_species_authority = Fitch, 1855{{cite journal |last1=Fitch |first1=A. |title=Report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of New York. [I] |journal=Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society |date=1855 |volume=(1854) 14 |pages=705–880}}

| synonyms = *Durosta Cook, 1908{{cite journal |last1=Cook |first1=M.T. |title=The insect galls of Indiana |journal=Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science |date=1908 |volume=1907 |pages=88–98 |doi=10.5962/bhl.part.19418 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8587342#page/96/mode/1up |access-date=12 March 2021|doi-access=free }}

• Eurostina Curran, 1932{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=Charles Howard |title=New species of Trypaneidae, with key to the North American genera |journal=American Museum Novitates |date=1932 |issue=556 |pages=1–19 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3003//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0556.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=9 February 2021}}

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File:Eurosta solidaginis larva.jpg larva]]

Eurosta is a genus of gall maker flies in the family Tephritidae (known as fruit flies in North America and picture wing flies in Europe).{{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}} There are seven species in the genus, all in North America.