Melanodexia

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Kingdom Animalia Family Calliphoridae Tribe Polleniini Phylum Arthropoda Order Fly		Class Insecta Subfamily Polleniinae Scientific name Melanodexia Rank Genus
Similar Fly, Polleniinae, Compsomyiops callipes, Calliphora livida

Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States.

Description

Like the genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females laterocilnate seta of the fronto-orbital plates.

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

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