Melanodexia

Melanodexia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Subsection:	Calyptratae
Superfamily:	Oestroidea
Family:	Polleniidae
Genus:	Melanodexia ; Williston, 1893
Type species
	Melanodexia tristis ; Williston, 1893
Synonyms
	MelanodexiopsisHall, 1948; MellanodexmiaSidhu et al. 2018;

Last updated February 06, 2026

Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.^[4]

Description

Like the related genus Pollenia , Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females lateroclinate setae of the fronto-orbital plates.^[5]

Species

Melanodexia californica Hall, 1948^[3]
Melanodexia glabricula (Bigot, 1887)^[6]
Melanodexia grandis Shannon, 1926^[7] (Synonyms: M. pacificaHall, 1948)
Melanodexia idahoensis (Hall, 1948)^[3]
Melanodexia nox (Hall, 1948)^[3]
Melanodexia satanica Shannon, 1926^[7]
Melanodexia tristina (Hall, 1948)^[3]
Melanodexia tristis Williston, 1893^[1]

References

1 2 3 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.
1 2 3 4 5 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 . PMC 7538466 .
↑ Rognes, Knut (1991). Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hardback). Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 24. Lieden: Brill. pp. 1–272 [209]. 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. [1887] 21: clxxii–clxxiv.
1 2 Shannon, R. C . (1926). "Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 28: 115–139.

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[Williston1893-1] 1 2 3 Williston, S. W. (1893). "List of Diptera of the Death Valley Expedition". N. Am. Fauna. 7: 235–268.

[James-2] 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.

[Hall1948-3] 1 2 3 4 5 Hall, D. G. (1948). The blowflies of North America. Thomas Say Publ. p. 4.

[Gisondi_et_al._2020-4] 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 . PMC 7538466 .

[Rognes-5] Rognes, Knut (1991). Blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark (Hardback). Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica. Vol. 24. Lieden: Brill. pp. 1–272 [209]. ISBN 90-04-09304-4.

[Bigot1887-6] 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. [1887] 21: clxxii–clxxiv.

[Shannon1926-7] 1 2 Shannon, R. C . (1926). "Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 28: 115–139.

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Melanodexia

Contents

Description

Species

References