Melanodexia
Sign in to saveMelanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Polleniidae
- Collections
- USNM, FMNH, EMEC
- Recorded in
- United States
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Melanodexia is a peculiar New World cluster fly genus of the western United States, formerly included in the family Calliphoridae.
==Description== Like the related genus Pollenia, Melanodexia has hairy parafacialia, and in females lateroclinate setae of the fronto-orbital plates.
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