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Melanodexia

Melanodexia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Calliphoridae
Subfamily: Polleniinae
Tribe: Polleniini
Genus: Melanodexia
Williston 1893
Type species
M. tristis
Williston, 1893
Synonyms

Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948


Melanodexiopsis Hall, 1948

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

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



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