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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 |
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| Melanodexia tristis Williston, 1893 | |
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Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.
Description
Like the related genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females lateroclinate setae of the fronto-orbital plates.
Species
- Melanodexia californica Hall, 1948
- Melanodexia glabricula (Bigot, 1887)
- 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
- ^ 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. 4 (1). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press: 1–34. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ^ 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. hdl:11573/1440832.
- Rognes, Knut (1991). Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hardback). Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 24. Lieden: Brill. pp. 1–272 . 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. 21: clxxii–clxxiv.
- ^ Shannon, R. C . (1926). "Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 28: 115–139.
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