Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.[4]

Melanodexia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Subsection: Calyptratae
Superfamily: Oestroidea
Family: Polleniidae
Genus: Melanodexia
Williston, 1893[1]
Type species
Melanodexia tristis[2]
Synonyms
  • Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948[3]
  • Mellanodexmia Sidhu et al. 2018

Description

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Like the related genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females lateroclinate setae of the fronto-orbital plates.[5]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Williston, S. W. (1893). "List of Diptera of the Death Valley Expedition". N. Am. Fauna. 7: 235–268.
  2. ^ James, Maurice T. (1955). "The Blowflies Of California (Diptera: Calliphoridae)" (PDF Adobe Acrobat). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey. 4 (1). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press: 1–34. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  3. ^ a b c d e Hall, D. G. (1948). The blowflies of North America. Thomas Say Publ. p. 4.
  4. ^ Gisondi, Silvia; Rognes, Knut; Badano, Davide; Pape, Thomas; Cerretti, Pierfilippo (2020). "The world Polleniidae (Diptera, Oestroidea): key to genera and checklist of species". ZooKeys (971): 105–155. doi:10.3897/zookeys.971.51283. hdl:11573/1440832.
  5. ^ Rognes, Knut (1991). Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hardback). Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 24. Lieden: Brill. pp. 1–272 [209]. ISBN 90-04-09304-4.
  6. ^ Bigot, JMF (1887). "Note in Séance du 9 novembre 1887: "– M. J.-M.-F. Bigot présente les diagnoses abrégées de quelques diptères nouveaux, provenant de l'Amérique du Nord, dont les descriptions détaillées seront publiées ultérieurement". Bulletin Bimensuel de la Société Entomologique de France. [1887] 21: clxxii–clxxiv.
  7. ^ a b Shannon, R. C . (1926). "Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 28: 115–139.