| Metasphenisca | |
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| Metasphenisca tetrachaeta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Tephritidae |
| Subfamily: | Tephritinae |
| Tribe: | Tephrellini |
| Genus: | Metasphenisca Hendel, 1914 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Trypeta gracilipes | |
| Synonyms | |
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Metasphenisca is a genus of fruit flies in the family Tephritidae. [4] There are at least 25 described species in the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions. Of these, 20 occur in the continental Afrotropics and two are confined to Madagascar; three species occur in the Arabian Peninsula. [5]