Paraspheniscoides

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Paraspheniscoides

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| authority = Hering, 1941{{cite journal |last1=Hering |first1=E.M. |title=Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna Deutsch-Ostafrikas, insbesondere des Matengo-Hochlandes. I. Diptera: Trypetidae |journal=Annalen der Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien |date=1941 |volume=(1940) 51 |pages=193–205}}

| type_species = Trypeta binaria

| type_species_authority = Loew, 1861{{cite journal |last1=Loew |first1=H. |title=Ueber die afrikanischen Trypetina |journal=Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift |date=1861 |volume=5 |pages=253–306, pl. II |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9840217#page/285/mode/1up |access-date=17 February 2021}}

| synonyms = *Notoxesis 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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Paraspheniscoides 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}}