Paraciura

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Paraciura

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| authority = Hering, 1942{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Neue Gattungen und Arten von Fruchtfliegen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Universitat Berlin (Dipt.). (41. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trypetidae) |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. |date=1942 |volume=25 |pages=274–291}}

| type_species = Aciura perpicillaris

| type_species_authority = Bezzi, 1920{{cite journal |last1=Bezzi |first1=M. |title=Notes on the Ethiopian fruit-flies of the family Trypaneidae, other than Dacus --III |journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research |date=1920 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=211–272 |doi=10.1017/S000748530004414X |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35836431#page/299/mode/1up |access-date=15 February 2021}}

| synonyms = *Biretmus Munro, 1947{{cite book |last1=Munro |first1=H.K. |title=African Trypetidae (Diptera). A review of the transition genera between Tephritinae and Trypetinae, with a preliminary study of the male terminalia |date=1947 |publisher=Entomological Society of Southern Africa |location=Southern Africa |pages=[viii] + 28}}

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Paraciura 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}}