Scotiptera

{{short description|Genus of flies}}

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| taxon = Scotiptera

| authority = Macquart, 1835{{cite book |last1=Macquart |first1=P.J.M. |title=Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Diptères. Tome deuxieme |date=1835 |publisher=Roret |location=Paris |pages=703 or 710 pp., 12 pls |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50115#page/10/mode/1up |access-date=27 January 2021}}

| type_species=Dexia melaleuca

| type_species_authority= Fabricius, 1805{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=Johann Christian |title=Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species |date=1805 |publisher=Apud Carolum Reichard |location=Bransvigae |pages=i-xiv, 1–373| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53432#page/9/mode/1up |accessdate=5 June 2020}}

| synonyms = *Scotioptera Blanchard, 1840{{cite journal |last1=Blanchard |first1=C.E. |title=Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthopteres, nevropteres, hemipteres, hymenopteres, lepidopteres et diptères.Vol. 3, . |journal=In Laporte, F. L. De, Histoire naturelledes animaux articules. Paris. |date=1840 |volume=3 |pages=672 pp., 67 pls}}

• Scotoptera Agassiz, 1846{{cite book |last1=Agassiz |first1=J.L.R. |title=Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis |date=1846 |publisher=Jent & Gassmann |location=Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland] |pages=viii + 393}}

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Scotiptera 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=7 January 2024 |date=5 March 2020}}