Melanodexia
| Melanodexia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Calliphoridae |
| Subfamily: | Polleniinae |
| Tribe: | Polleniini |
| Genus: | Melanodexia Williston 1893 |
| Type species | |
| M. tristis[1] Williston, 1893 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948[1] | |
Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States.
Description
Like the genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females laterocilnate seta of the fronto-orbital plates.[2]
Species
- M. californica Hall, 1948
- M. glabricula (Bigot, 1888)
- M. grandis Shannon, 1926 (Synonyms: M. pacifica Hall, 1948)
- M. idahoensis (Hall, 1948)
- M. nox (Hall, 1948)
- M. satanica Shannon, 1926
- M. tristina (Hall, 1948)
- M. tristis Williston, 1893
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References
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ 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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