Mesembrina is a genus from the fly family Muscidae.
Species
These 14 valid species belong to the genus Mesembrina:
- Mesembrina asternopleuris <small>Fan, 1992</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina aurocaudata <small>Emden, 1965</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina ciliimaculata <small>Fan & Zheng, 1992</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina decipiens <small>Loew, 1873</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g b</sup></span>
- Mesembrina intermedia <small>(Zetterstedt, 1849)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina latreillii <small>Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> i c g b</sup></span>
- Mesembrina magnifica <small>Aldrich, 1925</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina meridiana <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina montana <small>Zimin, 1951</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina mystacea <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina nigribasis <small>Kuchta & Savage, 2008</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- [?] Mesembrina pallida (excluded, see taxonomy)
- Mesembrina resplendens <small>Wahlberg, 1844</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
- Mesembrina tristis <small>Aldrich, 1926</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
<small>Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net</small>
Taxonomy
For Mesembrina pallida <small>(Say, 1829)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> 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)<span style="color:gray"><sup> i</sup></span>
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