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Genus of flies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medetera is a large genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[9][10] It includes about 350 species worldwide.[11] The adults are commonly found resting on vertical surfaces such as tree trunks, on which they have a characteristic vertical upright stance. Because of this stance, they are sometimes known as "woodpecker flies". Medetera adults are predators of soft-bodied arthropods, while the larvae are predators of bark beetle larvae.[2][12][13]
| Medetera | |
|---|---|
| Medetera sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Subfamily: | Medeterinae |
| Tribe: | Medeterini |
| Genus: | Medetera Fischer von Waldheim, 1819[1] |
| Type species | |
| Medetera carnivora (= Musca diadema Linnaeus, 1767) Fischer von Waldheim, 1819 | |
| Synonyms[2][3][4] | |
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A 2011 molecular phylogenetic analysis of Medetera and related genera found that Medetera is paraphyletic with respect to Dolichophorus, and that Thrypticus is a sister taxon to Medetera + Dolichophorus.[14]
Taxonomy follows Bickel (1985, 1987),[2][12] though some of the species groups are treated as separate genera by other authors.[15]
Unsorted:
The following species are nomina dubia:[12]
The following species are synonyms of other species:
The following species have been moved to other genera:[15]
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