Melanophora

{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Melanophora roralis female. A woodlouse parasite, found in a basement apartment. Mt. Pleasant, Washington, DC, USA.jpg |image_caption = ''Melanophora roralis'' | taxon = Melanophora | display_parents = 2 | authority = Meigen, 1803<ref name="Meigen1803">{{cite journal|last1=Meigen|first1=J. W.|title=Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europaischen zweiflugligen Insekten|journal=Mag. Insektenkd|date=1803|volume=2|pages=259–281}}</ref> | type_species = ''Musca grossificationis'' | type_species_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)<ref name="Linnaeus1758">{{cite book |last1=Linnaeus |first1=C. |title=Systema naturae... Ed. 10, Vol. 1 |date=1758 |publisher=L. Salvii |location=Holmiae [= Stockholm] |pages=824 pp |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/2/mode/1up |access-date=14 November 2022 |archive-date=25 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325030419/http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/2/mode/1up |url-status=live }}</ref> | synonyms = *''Bequaertiana'' Curran, 1929<ref name="Curran1929">{{cite journal |last1=Curran |first1=C.H. |title=Nineteen new Diptera from Africa |journal=American Museum Novitates |date=1929 |issue=340 |pages=15 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/3117//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0340.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref> *''Illigeria'' Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830<ref name="Robineau-Desvoidy1830">{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=J.B. |title=Essai sur les myodaires |journal=Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France (Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques) |date=1830 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1–813 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=7 January 2022 |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010183756/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |url-status=live }}</ref> *''Melanophera'' Fischer, 1813<ref name="Fischer1813">{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=von Waldheim G. |title=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.|pages = xiii + [1] + 465 pp.|publisher = Typis Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky| location= Mosquae |date=1813}}</ref> *''Melanosphora'' Shimer, 1871<ref name="Shimer1871">{{cite journal |last1=Shimer |first1=H. |title=Additional notes on the striped squash beetle |journal=American Naturalist |date=1871 |volume=5 |pages=217–220}}</ref> *''Milanophora'' Fabricius, 1805<ref name="Fabricius1805">{{cite book |last1=Fabricius |first1=Johann Christian |title=Systema antliatorum secundum ordines, genera, species |date=1805 |publisher=Apud Carolum Reichard |location=Bransvigae |pages=i-xiv, 1–373 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53432#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=21 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021135429/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53432#page/9/mode/1up |url-status=live }}</ref>

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'''''Melanophora''''' is a genus of woodlouse flies in the family Calliphoridae.<ref name="CerrettiEtAl2020">{{Cite journal|last1=Cerretti|first1=Pierfilippo|last2=Badano|first2=Davide|last3=Gisondi|first3=Silvia|last4=Lo Giudice|first4=Giuseppe|last5=Pape|first5=Thomas|date=15 Jan 2020|title=The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae)|journal=ZooKeys|issue=903|pages=1–130|doi=10.3897/zookeys.903.37775|pmid=31997887|pmc=6976704|doi-access=free|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/37775/download/pdf/372682 |access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="YanPapeEtAl2021">{{cite journal |last1=Yan |first1=Liping |last2=Pape |first2=Thomas |last3=Meusemann |first3=Karen |last4=Kutty |first4=Sujatha Narayanan |last5=Meier |first5=Rudolf |last6=Bayless |first6=Keith M |last7=Zhang |first7=Dong |title=Monophyletic blowflies revealed by phylogenomics |journal=BMC Biology |date=2021 |volume=19 |issue=230 |url=https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-021-01156-4 |access-date=2 December 2023 |archive-date=2 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202130638/https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-021-01156-4 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Species== *''Melanophora argyriventris'' (Curran, 1929)<ref name="Curran1929"/> *''Melanophora asetosa'' Kugler, 1978<ref name="Kugler1978">{{cite journal |last1=Kugler |first1=J. |title=The Rhinophoridae (Diptera) of Israel |journal=Israel Journal of Entomology |date=1978 |volume=12 |pages=65–106}}</ref> *''Melanophora basilewskyi'' (Peris, 1957)<ref name="Peris1957">{{cite journal |last1=Peris |first1=S.V. |title=Diptera Calliphoridae Rhinophorinae. A new species of genus ''Bequaertiana'' from the Ruanda-Urundi |journal=Annls Mus. r. Congo belge Ser. 8vo (Zool.) |date=1957 |volume=58 |pages=136}}</ref> *''Melanophora chia'' Cerretti & Pape, 2009<ref name="CerrettiPape2009">{{cite journal |last1=Cerretti |first1=P. |last2=Pape |first2=T. |title=Phylogeny and re-definition of the genus Melanophora (Diptera: Rhinophoridae), with description of a new species from Sardinia |journal=Zootaxa |date=2009 |volume=2318 |pages=552–565 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Pape-3/publication/228498326_Phylogeny_and_re-definition_of_the_genus_Melanophora_Diptera_Rhinophoridae_with_description_of_a_new_species_from_Sardinia/links/5620187008ae93a5c9243af5/Phylogeny-and-re-definition-of-the-genus-Melanophora-Diptera-Rhinophoridae-with-description-of-a-new-species-from-Sardinia.pdf?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19 |access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref> *''Melanophora roralis'' (Linnaeus, 1758)<ref name="Linnaeus1758"/>

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Category:Calliphoridae Category:Brachycera genera Category:Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen Category:Flies of North America Category:Flies of Africa Category:Flies of Asia Category:Flies of Europe