Macquartia praefica

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| genus = Macquartia

| species = praefica

| authority = (Meigen, 1824){{cite journal|last1=Meigen|first1=J. W.|title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten.|journal=Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm.|date=1824|pages=xii + 428 pp|url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45862#page/9/mode/1up|accessdate=9 May 2020}}

| synonyms = *Tachina praefica Meigen, 1824

• Macquartia microcera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
• Tachina olizon Walker, 1849{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV.|date=1849 |publisher=British Museum |location=London |pages=[3] + 689–1172 + [2]|url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/118982#page/7/mode/1up |access-date=20 October 2022}}
• Tachina torta Walker, 1853{{cite book |last1=Walker |first1=F. |title=Insecta Britannica, Diptera. Volume 2 |date=1853 |publisher=Reeve & Benham |location=London |pages=vi + 298 pp., pls. 11–20}}
• Macquartia celebs Rondani, 1859{{cite book |last1=Rondani |first1=C. |title=Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: III. Species Italicae ... Pars secunda. Muscidae Siphoninae et (partim) Tachininae. |date=1859 |publisher=A. Stocchi |location=Parmae [= Parma] |pages=243 + [1] pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34111#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=6 December 2020}}
• Arraltia atra Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863{{cite book |last= Robineau-Desvoidy|first= Jean-Baptiste |date= 1863 |title= Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris. |url= https://archive.org/download/histoirenaturell02robi/histoirenaturell02robi.pdf|publisher= Masson et Fils, Paris.|volume= Tome second|pages= 1–920 |access-date=15 February 2015}}
• Macquartia spinicincta Meade, 1891{{cite journal |last1=Meade |first1=Richard Henry |title=Annotated list of British Tachinidae |journal=The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |date=1892 |volume=28 |pages=75–79 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9268482#page/85/mode/1up |access-date=16 December 2020}}
• Macquartia echinalis Pandellé, 1895{{cite journal |last1=Pandellé |first1=L. |title=Etude sur les muscides de France. 2e partie |journal=Revue Ent. |date=1895 |volume=14 |pages=287–351}}
• Macquartia fascicularis Pandellé, 1895

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Macquartia praefica is a European species of fly in the family Tachinidae.{{cite web | url = https://fauna-eu.org/ | title = Fauna Europaea version 2.4 | date = 23 September 2012 | publisher = European Commission | access-date = 23 September 2012 }}{{cite book | last = Chandler | first = Peter J. | year = 1998 | title = Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera | series = Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–234 | isbn = 0-901546-82-8 | publisher = Royal Entomological Society of London | location = London }}{{cite journal |title= Tachinid Flies Diptera Tachinidae|last= Belshaw|first= Robert|year= 1993|publisher= Royal Entomological Society of London |journal= Royal Entomological Society Handbooks|volume=10 |issue= 4ai |pages= 170}}{{cite journal |title= Ditera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Section (a) Tachinidae & Calliphoridae |last= van Emden|first= F.I. |year= 1954|publisher= Royal Entomological Society of London |journal= Royal Entomological Society Handbooks|volume=10 |issue= 4a |pages= 133}}{{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}}