Xanthomelanodes arcuatus

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| image = Xanthomelanodes arcuatus.jpg

| genus = Xanthomelanodes

| species = arcuatus

| display_parents = 3

| authority = (Say, 1829){{cite journal |last1=Say |first1=T. |title=Descriptions of North American dipterous insects |journal=Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |date=1829 |volume=6 |pages=149–178|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24677623#page/157/mode/1up|access-date=30 December 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Say |first1=T. |title=Descriptions of North American dipterous insects |journal=Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |date=1830 |volume=6 |pages=183–188|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24677623#page/195/mode/1up|access-date=30 December 2022}}

| synonyms = *Ocyptera arcuata Say, 1829

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Xanthomelanodes arcuatus is a species of bristle fly 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=21 August 2023 |date=5 March 2020}} Hosts for the larval form of this tachinid include species in the genus Pselliopus, such as Pselliopus barberi and Pselliopus cinctus.{{cite journal |last1=Swadener |first1=S. O. |last2=Yonke |first2=T. R. |title=Immature Stages and Biology of Pselliopus cinctus and Pselliopus barberi (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) |journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society |date=1975 |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=477–492 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25078467 |issn=0022-8567}}