genus

Gymnosoma

Field notes

Gymnosoma is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

The name "Gymnosoma" literally translates as "naked body", and presumably refers to the fact that some species in the genus are less conspicuously bristly than most species of flies in the family Tachinidae.

Children

Ladybird Fly present
Gymnosoma nudifrons
Gymnosoma clavatum
Gymnosoma par
Gymnosoma canadense
Gymnosoma fuliginosum

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided