Melanodexia Explained

Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.^[1]

Description

Like the related genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females lateroclinate setae of the fronto-orbital plates.^[2]

Species

• Melanodexia californica Hall, 1948
• Melanodexia glabricula (Bigot, 1887)^[3]
• Melanodexia grandis Shannon, 1926^[4] (Synonyms: M. pacifica Hall, 1948)
• Melanodexia idahoensis (Hall, 1948)
• Melanodexia nox (Hall, 1948)
• Melanodexia satanica Shannon, 1926^[4]
• Melanodexia tristina (Hall, 1948)
• Melanodexia tristis Williston, 1893

Notes and References

1. Gisondi . Silvia . Rognes . Knut . Badano . Davide . Pape . Thomas . Cerretti . Pierfilippo . The world Polleniidae (Diptera, Oestroidea): key to genera and checklist of species . ZooKeys . 2020 . 971 . 105–155 . 10.3897/zookeys.971.51283 . 11573/1440832 . free . free .
2. Book: Rognes, Knut . Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark . . 24 . 1991 . Hardback . Brill . Lieden . 90-04-09304-4 . 1–272 [209] .
3. Bigot . JMF . 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 . [1887] 21 . clxxii–clxxiv.
4. Shannon . R. C . . Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera) . Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 1926 . 28 . 115–139.