Biology:Melanodexia
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Short description: Genus of flies
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Scientific classification 
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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] Williston, 1893[1]
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Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States , formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.[4]
Description
Like the related genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females lateroclinate setae of the fronto-orbital plates.[5]
Species
- Melanodexia californica Hall, 1948[3]
- Melanodexia glabricula (Bigot, 1887)[6]
- Melanodexia grandis Shannon, 1926[7] (Synonyms: M. pacifica Hall, 1948)
- Melanodexia idahoensis (Hall, 1948)[3]
- Melanodexia nox (Hall, 1948)[3]
- Melanodexia satanica Shannon, 1926[7]
- Melanodexia tristina (Hall, 1948)[3]
- Melanodexia tristis Williston, 1893[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Williston, S. W. (1893). "List of Diptera of the Death Valley Expedition". N. Am. Fauna 7: 235–268.
- ↑ 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. http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis04_1.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Hall, D. G. (1948). The blowflies of North America. Thomas Say Publ. p. 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. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Shannon, R. C . (1926). "Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 28: 115–139.
Wikidata ☰ Q6811458 entry
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