Gerocyptera

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Gerocyptera

| authority = Townsend, 1916{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Elucidations of New England Muscoidea |journal=Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus |date=1916 |volume=4 |pages=17–33 |doi=10.5962/bhl.part.8947 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8221401#page/195/mode/1up |access-date=31 December 2020}}

| type_species = Trichoprosopa marginalis

| type_species_authority = Walker, 1860{{cite journal |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Amboyna by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species |journal=Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology |date=1860 |volume=5 (suppl.) |pages=144–168 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35035#page/208/mode/1up |access-date=27 January 2021}}

| synonyms = *Vespocyptera Townsend, 1927{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=New muscoid flies in the collection of the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut in Berlin |journal=Entomologische Mitteilungen |date=1927 |volume=16 |pages=277–287 |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Mitteilungen_16_1927_0277-0287.pdf |access-date=30 March 2022}}

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Gerocyptera is a subgenus 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=1 July 2023 |date=5 March 2020}}