Melinda (fly)

Melinda
A female Melinda sp.
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Melinda

Type species
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]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b 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.