Medetera is a large genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.[9][10] It includes about 350 species worldwide.[11] The adults are commonly found resting on vertical surfaces such as tree trunks, on which they have a characteristic vertical upright stance. Because of this stance, they are sometimes known as "woodpecker flies". Medetera adults are predators of soft-bodied arthropods, while the larvae are predators of bark beetle larvae.[2][12][13]
A 2011 molecular phylogenetic analysis of Medetera and related genera found that Medetera is paraphyletic with respect to Dolichophorus, and that Thrypticus is a sister taxon to Medetera + Dolichophorus.[14]
Species
Taxonomy follows Bickel (1985, 1987),[2][12] though some of the species groups are treated as separate genera by other authors.[15]
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^Mik, Josef (1878). "Dipterologische Untersuchungen". Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium: 1–24, 1 pl.
^Yang, D.; Zhu, Y.; Wang, M.; Zhang, L. (2006). World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera). Beijing: China Agricultural University Press. pp. 1–704. ISBN9787811171020.
^ abcdefBecker, Theodor (1922). "Dipterologischen Studien. Dolichopodidae. B. Nearktische und Neotropische Regions". Abhandlungen der Zool.-Botan. Gesellschaft in Wien. 13 (1): 395.
^Van Duzee, Millard C. (1933). "Preoccupied names of dolichopodid flies and new names proposed for the species". Entomological News. 44: 151–152.
^ abParent, Octave (1925). "Contribution à la faune diptérologique d'Égypte". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Égypte. 9: 153–185.
^Parent, Octave (1929). "Contribution à la faune diptérologique d'Égypte Dolichopodidés de la région de Halaib". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Égypte. 13: 42–58.
^Bickel, D. J.; Arnaud, P. H. (2011). "Medetera johnthomasi (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new species from California with notes on the aberrans species group". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 87 (2): 124–129. doi:10.3956/2011-09.1. S2CID86350369.
^Parent, Octave (1929). "Étude sur les Dolichopodidés exotiques de la collection von Roder". Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles (B). 49: 169–246.
^Gosseries, J. (1988). "Some new names in the Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique. 124 (10–12): 304–307.
^ abcdefgNegrobov, O. P.; Stackelberg, A.A. (1972). "29 Dolichopodidae. Lief. 289". Die Fliegen der Paläarktischen Region. 4 (5): 257–302.
^ abcdeParent, Octave (1927). "Contribution à l'étude des espèces paléarctiques du genre Medetera Fischer, sensu stricto (Diptéres, Dolichopodidae)". Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles. 47: 1–26.
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^ abcYang, Ding; Yang, C.K. (1995). Diptera: Dolichopididae, In Insects of Baishanzu Mountain Eastern China. Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House. pp. 510–519. ISBN9787503817441.
^ abcdefgGrichanov, I. Y. (2000). "New Afrotropical Sciapodinae and Medeterinae with a review of Namibian Dolichopodidae (Diptera)". Studia dipterologica. 7 (2): 399–435.
^ abNegrobov, O.P. (1979). "Diptera of the family Dolichopodidae of the USSR fauna. I. Subfamilies Dolichopodinae and Medeterinae". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie (in Russian). 58 (3): 646–657.
^Parent, Octave (1931). "Diptères Dolichopodidés de l'Amérique du Sud espèces nouvelles figurant dans la collection Schnuse conservée aux Staatliche museen für tierkunde und völkerkunde zu Dresden". Abhandlungen und berichte der Museen für tierkunde und völkerkunde zu Dresden. 18. Leipzig, Berlin: B.G. Teubner: 1–21.
^Parent, Octave (1927). "Les espèces paléarctiques du genre Hercostomus Lw". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 96: 209–231. doi:10.1080/21686351.1927.12280310.
^Curran, Charles Howard (1927). "New Dolichopodidae from the Ethiopian Region". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19 (9): 1–16. doi:10.1080/00222932708633569.
^Dyte, C. E.; Smith, K. G. V. (1980). "Family Dolichopodidae". In Crosskey, R.W. (ed.). A Catalogue of Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 443–463. ISBN978-0565008215.