Mesembrina

Mesembrina is a genus from the fly family Muscidae.^[1][2]

Mesembrina
Mesembrina meridiana female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Muscidae
Subfamily:	Muscinae
Tribe:	Muscini
Genus:	Mesembrina Meigen, 1826

Mesembrina decipiens

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, 1849) ^{c g}
• Mesembrina latreillii Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 ^{i c g b}
• Mesembrina magnifica Aldrich, 1925 ^{c g}
• Mesembrina meridiana (Linnaeus, 1758) ^{c g}
• Mesembrina montana Zimin, 1951 ^{c g}
• Mesembrina mystacea (Linnaeus, 1758) ^{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,^[3] c = Catalogue of Life,^[4] g = GBIF,^[5] b = Bugguide.net^[6]

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