Name - Melophagus Latreille 1802

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:213000 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Melophagus

• Melophagus Latreille

• Melophaga Wiedemann 1830

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Louse-flies (Diptera, Hippoboscidae) of the Palaearctic.
• Nomenclatural studies toward a world catalog of Diptera genus-group names. III. Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann.
• Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen's 1800 pamphlet.
• Updated taxonomic keys for European Hippoboscidae (Diptera), and expansion in Central Europe of the bird louse fly Ornithomya comosa (Austen, 1930) with the first record from Slovakia.

Search name in:

Sherborn Index Animalium

• Sonnini's Buffon, Ins., III 1802: 466. [Index Animalium Entry]

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