Melanophora Explained

Melanophora is a genus of woodlouse flies in the family Calliphoridae.^{[1] [2]}

Species

• Melanophora argyriventris (Curran, 1929)
• Melanophora asetosa Kugler, 1978^[3]
• Melanophora basilewskyi (Peris, 1957)^[4]
• Melanophora chia Cerretti & Pape, 2009^[5]
• Melanophora roralis (Linnaeus, 1758)^[6]

Notes and References

1. Cerretti. Pierfilippo. Badano. Davide. Gisondi. Silvia. Lo Giudice. Giuseppe. Pape. Thomas. 15 Jan 2020. The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae). ZooKeys. 903. 1–130. 10.3897/zookeys.903.37775. 31997887. 6976704. free. 2 December 2023.
2. Yan . Liping . Pape . Thomas . Meusemann . Karen . Kutty . Sujatha Narayanan . Meier . Rudolf . Bayless . Keith M . Zhang . Dong . Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics . BMC Biology . 2021 . 19 . 230 . 2 December 2023.
3. Kugler . J. . The Rhinophoridae (Diptera) of Israel . Israel Journal of Entomology . 1978 . 12 . 65–106.
4. Peris . S.V. . Diptera Calliphoridae Rhinophorinae. A new species of genus Bequaertiana from the Ruanda-Urundi . Annls Mus. r. Congo belge Ser. 8vo (Zool.) . 1957 . 58 . 136.
5. Cerretti . P. . Pape . T. . Phylogeny and re-definition of the genus Melanophora (Diptera: Rhinophoridae), with description of a new species from Sardinia . Zootaxa . 2009 . 2318 . 552–565 . 2 December 2023.
6. Book: Linnaeus . C. . Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1 . 1758 . L. Salvii. Holmiae [= Stockholm] . 824 pp . 14 November 2022.