Protohystricia

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

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| image = Protohystricia Hinewai.jpg

| image_caption = Unidentified Protohystricia fly resting on information sign at Hinewai Reserve

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| taxon = Protohystricia

| authority = Malloch, 1929{{cite journal |last1=Malloch |first1=J.R. |title=Notes on Australian Diptera. XX |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |date=1929 |volume=54 |pages=283–343 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35068452#page/413/mode/1up |access-date=7 May 2022}}

| type_species = Hystricia pachyprocta

| type_species_authority = Nowicki, 1875{{cite book |last1=Nowicki |first1=M. |title=Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Dipterenfauna Neu-Seelands |date=1875 |publisher=Privately published |location=Krakau |pages=29}}

| synonyms = *Hexamera Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1889{{cite journal |last1=Brauer |first1=F. |last2=Bergenstamm |first2=J.E. von |title=Die Zweiflugler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. IV. Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Muscaria Schizometopa (exclusive Anthomyidae) |journal=Pars I. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien |date=1889 |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=69–180, 11 pls|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7109187#page/115/mode/1up |access-date=8 June 2023}}

• Homohexamera Townsend, 1934{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Five new genera of New Zealand and Malayan Oestroidea |journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society |date=1934 |volume=42 |pages=247–248}}

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Protohystricia is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.{{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}}