{{Short description|Genus of flies}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Meledonus | authority = Aldrich, 1926<ref name="Aldrich1926a">{{cite journal |last1=Aldrich |first1=J.M. |title=Descriptions of new and little known Diptera or two-winged flies |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |date=1926 |volume=69(22) |issue=2648 |pages=1–26 |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/15654/USNMP-69_2648_1926.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> | type_species = ''Meledonus latipennis''<!-- latipennis Aldrich (By original designation)--> | type_species_authority = Aldrich, 1926<ref name="Aldrich1926a"/> | synonyms = *''Althanatus'' <small>Edwards & Hopwood, 1966</small><ref name="EdwardsHopwood1966">{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=M.A. |last2=Hopwood |first2=A.T. |title=Nomenclator Zoologicus. Vol. VI. 1946-1955 |date=1966 |publisher=Zoological Society of London |location=London |pages=viii + 329 pp}}</ref><!-- Subsequent misspelling--> *''Athanatus'' <small>Reinhard, 1947</small><ref name="Reinhard1952a">{{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New genera and species of muscoid Diptera |journal=Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society |date=1952 |volume=47 |pages=1–12}}</ref><!-- Junior Synonym--> *''Dyscolomyia'' <small>Reinhard, 1959</small><ref name="Reinhard1959b">{{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New North American Tachinidae (Diptera) |journal=Entomological News |date=1959 |volume=70 |pages=225–234}}</ref><!-- Junior Synonym--> *''Phytopsis'' <small>Townsend, 1915</small><ref name="Townsend1915d">{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=C.H.T. |title=Proposal of new muscoid genera for old species |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |date=1915 |volume=28 |pages=19–23 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3338457#page/45/mode/1up |access-date=6 March 2022}}</ref><!-- (junior homonym of Phytopsis Hall, 1847)--> }} '''''Meledonus''''' is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.<ref name="OHara2020">{{cite web |last1=O’Hara |first1=James E. |last2=Henderson |first2=Shannon J. |first3=D. Monty |last3=Wood |title=Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World|url=http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/WorldTachs/Checklist/Tachchlist_ver2.1.pdf |website=Tachinidae Resources |access-date=11 February 2024 |date=5 March 2020}}</ref>
==Species== *''Meledonus albiceps'' <small>Reinhard, 1956</small><ref name="Reinhard1956">{{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New Tachinidae (Diptera) |journal=Entomological News |date=1956 |volume=67 |pages=121–129 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2403679#page/467/mode/1up |access-date=28 March 2022}}</ref> *''Meledonus californicus'' <small>(Coquillett, 1895)</small><ref name="Coquillett1895c">{{cite journal |last1=Coquillett |first1=D.W. |title=New genera and species of Tachinidae |journal=Journal of the New York Entomological Society |date=1895 |volume=3 |pages=97–107 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8083204#page/107/mode/1up |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref> *''Meledonus latipennis'' <small>Aldrich, 1926</small><ref name="Aldrich1926a"/> *''Meledonus lindensis'' <small>Reinhard, 1953</small><ref name="Reinhard1953">{{cite journal |last1=Reinhard |first1=H.J. |title=New muscoid Diptera from the western United States |journal=Pan-Pacific Entomologist |date=1953 |volume=29 |pages=49–59}}</ref> *''Meledonus lucinus'' <small>(Reinhard, 1959)</small><ref name="Reinhard1959b"/>
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Category:Dexiinae Category:Brachycera genera Category:Flies of North America Category:Taxa named by John Merton Aldrich
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