Melanodexia
Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States.
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| Tribe: | Polleniini |
| Genus: | Melanodexia Williston 1893 |
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| M. tristis[1] Williston, 1893 | |
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Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948[1] | |
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
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.
- 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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