Gymnosomatini
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Xanthomelanodes
Xanthomelanodes is a genus of tachinid flies comprising 13 described species. As members of the subfamily Phasiinae and tribe Gymnosomatini, these flies are endoparasitoids of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Larvae develop inside their hosts and kill them. The genus was erected by Townsend in 1893 as a replacement name for Xanthomelana Wulp, 1892, which was already in use.