Melanodexia
Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.[2]
| Melanodexia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Subsection: | Calyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Oestroidea |
| Family: | Polleniidae |
| Genus: | Melanodexia Williston, 1893 |
| Type species | |
| M. tristis[1] Williston, 1893 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948 | |
Description
Like the related genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females laterocilnate seta of the fronto-orbital plates.[3]
Species
- Melanodexia californica Hall, 1948
- Melanodexia glabricula (Bigot, 1888)
- Melanodexia grandis Shannon, 1926 (Synonyms: M. pacifica Hall, 1948)
- Melanodexia idahoensis (Hall, 1948)
- Melanodexia nox (Hall, 1948)
- Melanodexia satanica Shannon, 1926
- Melanodexia tristina (Hall, 1948)
- Melanodexia tristis Williston, 1893
References
- James, Maurice T. (1955). "The Blowflies Of California (Diptera: Calliphoridae)" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 4 (1): 1–34. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- Gisondi S, Rognes K, Badano D, Pape T, Cerretti P (2020) The world Polleniidae (Diptera, Oestroidea): key to genera and checklist of species. ZooKeys 971: 105-155. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.971.51283
- Rognes, Knut (1991). Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hardback). Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. 24. Lieden: Brill. pp. 1–272 [209]. ISBN 90-04-09304-4.
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