Paracanthella

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Paracanthella

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| type_species = Carphotricha pavonina

| type_species_authority = Portschinsky, 1875{{cite journal |last1=Portschinsky |first1=J.A. |title=Materiaux pour servir a une faune dipterologique de la Russie |journal=Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae |date=1875 |volume=11 |pages=27–36, pl. 2. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12777737#page/293/mode/1up |access-date=21 February 2021}}

| authority = Hendel, 1927{{cite journal |last1=Hendel |first1=F. |title=Trypetidae |journal=Die Fliegen der Paläarktischen Region |date=1927 |volume=49 |issue=5, 16 |pages=1-64, pls. 1-4 }}

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Paracanthella is a genus of tephritid or fruit flies in the family Tephritidae.{{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}}