Ophirion

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Ophirion

| authority = Townsend, 1911{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Announcement of further results secured in the study of muscoid flies |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |date=1911 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=127–152 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16270509#page/147/mode/1up |access-date=8 August 2023|doi=10.1093/aesa/4.2.127 |doi-access=free }}

| type_species = Ophirion mirabile

| type_species_authority = Townsend, 1911

| display_parents= 2

| synonyms = *Eutrapelus Reinhard, 1974

• Ophirionopsis Townsend, 1927{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Synopse dos generos muscideos da região humida tropical da America, com generos e especies novas |journal=Revista do Museu Paulista |date=1927 |volume=15 |pages=203–385 + 4 pls. + [4 (errata)}}
• Opsoleskia Townsend, 1919{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=New genera and species of muscoid flies |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |date=1919 |volume=56 |issue=2301 |pages=541–592 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.2301.541 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766626#page/637/mode/1up |access-date=5 March 2022}}
• Oxyophirion Townsend, 1927
• Telothyriosoma Townsend, 1919

}}

Ophirion is a genus of parasitic flies in the family Tachinidae.{{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}}{{cite web |title=World Genera of the Tachinidae (Diptera) and their Regional Occurrence |author=James E. O'Hara |date=December 31, 2008 |accessdate=August 1, 2010 |version=Version 4.0 |publisher=University of Guelph |url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach/Genera/Gentach_ver4.pdf }} This species is a parasitoid of Polybia wasps. {{cite journal | title=Annotated Catalog of Vespid Hosts (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Tachinidae (Diptera), with Description of a New Species of Ophirion Townsend from Brazil | journal=Zoological Studies | volume=無 | issue=62 | doi=10.6620/ZS.2023.62-06 | page=}}