Melanophora

Melanophora is a genus of woodlouse flies in the family Calliphoridae.^[8][9]

Melanophora
Melanophora roralis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Calliphoridae
Subfamily:	Rhinophorinae
Tribe:	Phytonini
Genus:	Melanophora Meigen, 1803[1]
Type species
Musca grossificationis (Linnaeus, 1758)[2]
Synonyms
Bequaertiana Curran, 1929[3] Illigeria Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[4] Melanophera Fischer, 1813[5] Melanosphora Shimer, 1871[6] Milanophora Fabricius, 1805[7]

Species

• Melanophora argyriventris (Curran, 1929)^[3]
• Melanophora asetosa Kugler, 1978^[10]
• Melanophora basilewskyi (Peris, 1957)^[11]
• Melanophora chia Cerretti & Pape, 2009^[12]
• Melanophora roralis (Linnaeus, 1758)^[2]

References

1. Meigen, J. W. (1803). "Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europaischen zweiflugligen Insekten". Mag. Insektenkd. 2: 259–281.
2. Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1. Holmiae [= Stockholm]: L. Salvii. pp. 824 pp. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
3. Curran, C.H. (1929). "Nineteen new Diptera from Africa" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (340): 15. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
4. Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques). 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
5. Fischer, von Waldheim G. (1813). Zoognosia. Tabulis synopticis illustrata, in usum praelectionum Academiae imperialis medico-chirurgicae Mosquensis edita. Editio Tertia, Classium, Ordinum, Generum illustratione perpetua aucta. Volumen Primum, Tabulas synopticas generales et comparativas, nec non characterum quorundam explicationem iconographicam continens. Mosquae: Typis Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky. pp. xiii + [1] + 465 pp.
6. Shimer, H. (1871). "Additional notes on the striped squash beetle". American Naturalist. 5: 217–220.
7. Fabricius, Johann Christian (1805). Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species. Bransvigae: Apud Carolum Reichard. pp. i–xiv, 1–373. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
8. Cerretti, Pierfilippo; Badano, Davide; Gisondi, Silvia; Lo Giudice, Giuseppe; Pape, Thomas (15 Jan 2020). "The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae)". ZooKeys (903): 1–130. doi:10.3897/zookeys.903.37775. PMC 6976704. PMID 31997887. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
9. Yan, Liping; Pape, Thomas; Meusemann, Karen; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan; Meier, Rudolf; Bayless, Keith M; Zhang, Dong (2021). "Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics". BMC Biology. 19 (230). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
10. Kugler, J. (1978). "The Rhinophoridae (Diptera) of Israel". Israel Journal of Entomology. 12: 65–106.
11. Peris, S.V. (1957). "Diptera Calliphoridae Rhinophorinae. A new species of genus Bequaertiana from the Ruanda-Urundi". Annls Mus. r. Congo belge Ser. 8vo (Zool.). 58: 136.
12. Cerretti, P.; Pape, T. (2009). "Phylogeny and re-definition of the genus Melanophora (Diptera: Rhinophoridae), with description of a new species from Sardinia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2318: 552–565. Retrieved 2 December 2023.