Melinda (fly)
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| A female Melinda sp. | |
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| Genus: | Melinda Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
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| Melinda gentilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1]
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Melinda is a genus of flies in the family Calliphoridae. In general little is known of their biology. A few species have been reared from snails. One – Melinda gentilis – is parasitic in the snails Helicella virgata and Goniodiseus rotundata and Melinda itoi is a parasite of the snail Acusta despecta sieboldiana.[2]
Distribution
Most species are Oriental and Australian, but are found throughout the Old World tropical regions, and some parts the Palaearctic Region such as North Africa, Europe, China and Japan. In the Australian region, it is found in Fiji and the Samoan Islands.
Species
- Melinda abdominalis (Malloch, 1931)[2]
- Melinda auriceps (Malloch, 1931)[2]
- Melinda bisetosa (Bezzi, 1927)[2]
- Melinda crinitarsis (Villeneuve, 1927)[2]
- Melinda dubia (Malloch, 1931)[2]
- Melinda elegans Kurahashi, 1970[2]
- Melinda flavibasis (Malloch, 1931)[2]
- Melinda gentilis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830[1] (= cognata Meigen, 1830)[3][4]
- Melinda io Kurahashi, 1965[3]
- Melinda maai Kurahashi, 1970[2]
- Melinda malaisei Kurahashi, 1970[2]
- Melinda nigricans (Villeneuve, 1927)[2]
- Melinda nuortevae Kurahashi, 1970[2]
- Melinda ponti Kurahashi, 1970[2]
- Melinda pusilla (Villeneuve, 1927)[2]
- Melinda scutellata (Sen.-White, 1923)[2]
- Melinda vanemdeni Kurahashi, 1970[2]
- Melinda viridicyanea (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830)[1][4]
- Melinda xiphophora (Bezzi, 1927)[2]
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References
- ^ a b c d Robineau-Desvoidy, André Jean Baptiste (1830). "Essai sur les myodaires". Mémoires presentés à l'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique. 2 (2): 1–813. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Kurahashi, Hiromu (1970). "Tribe Calliphorini from Australian and Oriental Regions, I. Melinda-Group (Diptera: Calliphoridae)" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 12 (3). The Bishop Museum: 519–542. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- ^ a b Verves, Yu. G. (2002). "An Annotated Check-List of Calliphoridae (Diptera) of the Russian Far East" (PDF). Far Eastern Entomologist (in English and Russian). 116. Vladivostok: Far East Branch of the Russian Entomological Society.: 1–14. ISSN 1026-051X. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- ^ a b Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234.
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