''Mesembrina'' is a

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fly Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

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Muscidae Muscidae are a family of flies found in the superfamily Muscoidea. Muscidae, some of which are commonly known as house flies or stable flies due to their synanthropy, are worldwide in distribution and contain almost 4,000 described species i ...

Species

These 14 valid species belong to the genus ''Mesembrina'': * '' Mesembrina asternopleuris'' Fan, 1992^{c g} * '' Mesembrina aurocaudata'' Emden, 1965^{c g} * '' Mesembrina ciliimaculata'' Fan & Zheng, 1992^{c g} * '' Mesembrina decipiens'' Loew, 1873^{c g b} * '' Mesembrina intermedia'' (

Zetterstedt Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (20 May 1785 – 23 December 1874) was a Swedish naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera. Biography Zetterstedt studied at the University of Lund, where he was a pupil of Anders Jahan Retzius. He receiv ...

, 1849)^{c g} * '' Mesembrina latreillii'' Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830^{i c g b} * '' Mesembrina magnifica'' Aldrich, 1925^{c g} * '' Mesembrina meridiana'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

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)^{c g} * '' Mesembrina montana'' Zimin, 1951^{c g} * '' Mesembrina mystacea'' (

)^{c g} * '' Mesembrina nigribasis'' Kuchta & Savage, 2008^{c g} * '' Mesembrina pallida'' (excluded, see taxonomy) * '' Mesembrina resplendens'' Wahlberg, 1844^{c g} * '' Mesembrina tristis'' Aldrich, 1926^{c g} Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Taxonomy

For '' Mesembrina pallida'' (Say, 1829)^{c g} this is treated in some schemes as Nomen dubium, therefore excluded. For '' Mesembrina decipiens'' also see the junior synonym ''Hyperdermodes solitaria'' Knab, 1914, given in some sources as ''Mesembrina solitaria'' (Knab, 1914)ⁱ

References

Muscidae Diptera of Europe Muscidae genera Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen {{Muscidae-stub