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Medetera#aberrans

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}

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| image = Medetera spec - Burgwald 2011.ogv

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| taxon = Medetera

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| authority = Fischer von Waldheim, 1819{{cite journal|last1=Fischer von Waldheim|first1=Johann|title=G. 1819. ... une notice sur d'une mouche carnivore, accompagnee d'une planche.|journal=Université Impériale, Moscou |date=1819|pages=11 pp., 1 pl}}

| type_species = Medetera carnivora
(= Musca diadema Linnaeus, 1767)

| type_species_authority = Fischer von Waldheim, 1819

| synonyms_ref ={{cite journal|last=Bickel|first=D.J.|year=1985|title=A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=Technical Bulletin|series=Technical bulletin 1692 |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture|issue=1692|pages=1–109|doi=10.22004/ag.econ.309598|doi-access=free|issn=0082-9811}}{{cite journal|first1=Neal L.|last1=Evenhuis|first2=Adrian C.|last2=Pont|year=2004|title=The Diptera Genera of Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot|journal=Zootaxa|volume=751|pages=1–94|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.751.1.1}}{{cite journal|last=Evenhuis|first=Neal L.|year=2020|title=The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4859|issue=3|pages=383–396|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4859.3.4|pmid=33056189|s2cid=222821852}}

| synonyms =

  • Pachystoma Swinderen, 1822
  • Medeterus Meigen, 1824 (Missp.){{cite journal|last1=Meigen|first1=J. W.|title=Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten.|journal=Vierter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann, Hamm.|date=1824|pages=xii + 428 pp}}
  • Taechobates Haliday, 1832{{cite journal|last1=Haliday|first1=A. H.|title=The characters of two new dipterous genera, with indications of some generic subdivisions and several undescribed species of Dolichopodidae|journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|date=1832|volume=5|pages=350–368 pl. 15}}
  • Orthobates Wahlberg, 1844{{cite journal|last1=Wahlberg|first1=P. F.|title=Om Rhaphium flavipalpe|journal=Ofvers K. VetenskAkad. Forh. Stockholm|date=1844|volume=1|issue=3|pages=37–38}}
  • Anorthus Loew, 1850
  • Oligochaetus Mik, 1878{{cite journal|last1=Mik|first1=Josef|title=Dipterologische Untersuchungen|journal=Jahresber. K. K. Akad. Gymnasium|date=1878|pages=1–24, 1 pl}}
  • ?Saccopheronta Becker, 1914
    (disputed)
  • Medeterus Bigot, 1890 (Missp.)
    (nec Meigen, 1824)
  • Elongomedetera Hollis, 1964
  • ?Asioligochaetus Negrobov, 1966
    (disputed)
  • Lorea Negrobov, 1966

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Medetera is a large genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae.{{cite book|last1=Yang|first1=D.|last2=Zhu|first2=Y.|last3=Wang|first3=M.|last4=Zhang|first4=L.|title=World Catalog of Dolichopodidae (Insecta: Diptera).|date=2006|publisher=China Agricultural University Press|location=Beijing|isbn=9787811171020|pages=1–704}}{{cite journal|first1=O.P.|last1=Negrobov|first2=S.|last2=Naglis|year=2016|title=Palaearctic species of the genus Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|url=https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/content/2016/zr_2016_25_2_Negrobov.pdf|journal=Zoosystematica Rossica|volume=25|issue=2|pages=333–379|doi=10.31610/zsr/2016.25.2.333}} It includes about 350 species worldwide.{{cite journal|last1=Grichanov|first1=I.Ya.|last2=Ahmadi|first2=A.|year=2017|title=A new species of Medetera Fischer von Waldheim, 1819 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Iran|journal=Far Eastern Entomologist|volume=339|pages=12–15|doi=10.25221/fee.339.2|doi-access=free}} 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.{{cite journal|last1=Bickel|first1=Daniel J.|title=A revision of the Oriental and Australian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).|journal=Records of the Australian Museum|date=1987|volume=39|issue=4|pages=195–259|url=http://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/17676/170_complete.pdf|access-date=22 December 2016|publisher=Australian Museum|location=Sydney|issn=0067-1975|doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.39.1987.170|archive-date=12 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170512185332/https://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/17676/170_complete.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|last1=Bickel|first1=D. J.|last2=Solórzano Kraemer|first2=M. M.|year=2016|title=The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Mexican amber|journal=Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana|volume=68|issue=1|pages=11–21|doi=10.18268/bsgm2016v68n1a3|doi-access=free}}

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.{{cite journal|last1=Pollet|first1=M.|last2=Germann|first2=C.|last3=Bernasconi|first3=M.V.|year=2011|title=Phylogenetic analyses using molecular markers reveal ecological lineages in Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)|journal=The Canadian Entomologist|volume=143|issue=6 |pages=662–673|doi=10.4039/n11-031|s2cid=85695138 |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/56054/1/11_Pol_et_al_Can.pdf }}

Species

Taxonomy follows Bickel (1985, 1987), though some of the species groups are treated as separate genera by other authors.{{cite journal|last=Grichanov|first=I. Ya.|year=2011|title=Three new genera of Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Old World Tropics and Australasia|url=http://ibss.febras.ru/Files/FEE/00000332.pdf|journal=Far Eastern Entomologist|issue=225|pages=1–16|access-date=15 April 2018|archive-date=17 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317164757/http://ibss.febras.ru/Files/FEE/00000332.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Unsorted:

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The following species are nomina dubia:

The following species are synonyms of other species:

  • Medetera afra Curran, 1927:{{cite journal|last1=Curran|first1=Charles Howard|title=New Dolichopodidae from the Ethiopian Region|journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History|date=1927|volume=19|issue=9|pages=1–16|doi=10.1080/00222932708633569}} Synonym of Medetera simplicis Curran, 1924
  • Medetera carnivora Fischer von Waldheim, 1819: Synonym of Medetera diadema (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Medetera cilifemorata Van Duzee, 1933: Synonym of Medetera grisescens De Meijere, 1916
  • Medetera collini Thuneberg, 1955: Synonym of Medetera parenti Stackelberg, 1925
  • Medetera cryophora Séguy, 1963: Synonym of Medetera murina Becker, 1917
  • Medetera dendrophila Becker, 1917: Synonym of Medetera pallipes (Zetterstedt, 1843)
  • Medetera hawaiiensis Van Duzee, 1933: Synonym of Medetera grisescens De Meijere, 1916
  • Medetera idahoensis Harmston & Knowlton, 1943: Synonym of Medetera crassivenis Curran, 1928
  • Medetera intermedia Van Duzee, 1928: Synonym of Medetera veles Loew, 1861
  • Medetera lachaisei Couturier, 1986: Synonym of Dolichophorus luteoscutatus (Parent, 1936){{cite journal|first=I. Ya.|last=Grichanov|year=2009|title=Review of the genus Dolichophorus Lichtward, 1902 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae)|url=https://www.biosoil.ru/files/fscpublications/fee/00000286.pdf|journal=Far Eastern Entomologist|issue=201|pages=1–16|access-date=9 August 2021|archive-date=12 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812125651/https://www.biosoil.ru/files/fscpublications/fee/00000286.pdf|url-status=dead}}
  • Medetera longimana Van Duzee, 1933: Synonym of Medetera californiensis Wheeler, 1899
  • Medetera minuta von Roser, 1840: Synonym of Medetera plumbella Meigen, 1824
  • Medetera nigricans Meigen, 1824: Synonym of Medetera jacula (Fallén, 1823)
  • Medetera nuortevai Thuneberg, 1955: Synonym of Medetera pinicola Kowarz, 1878
  • Medetera obsoleta Negrobov & Thuneberg, 1971: Synonym of Medetera aeneiventris Van Duzee, 1933
  • Medetera orbiculata Van Duzee, 1932: Synonym of Medetera apicalis (Zetterstedt, 1843)
  • Medetera oscillans Allen, 1976: synonym of Medetera feminina Negrobov, 1967{{cite journal|last1=Drake|first1=C.M.|last2=Godfrey|first2=A.|last3=Perry|first3=I.|year=2024|title=Two previously unillustrated species of Medetera described by British authors, M. oscillans Allen and M. unisetosa Collin (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)|journal=Dipterists Digest|series=Second Series|volume=31|pages=166–175|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385040175|access-date=21 March 2025}}
  • Medetera palmae Hardy, 1939: Synonym of Medetera grisescens De Meijere, 1916
  • Medetera piceae Ounap, 1997: Synonym of Medetera pinicola Kowarz, 1878
  • Medetera robusta Loew, 1857: Synonym of Medetera obscura (Zetterstedt, 1838)
  • Medetera robusta Ounap, 1997: Synonym of Medetera obscura (Zetterstedt, 1838)
  • Medetera ruficornis Strobl, 1898: Renamed to Medetera negrobovi Gosseries, 1989
  • Medetera rutilans Parent, 1935: Synonym of Medetera maynei Curran, 1925
  • Medetera sinuata Parent, 1928: Synonym of Coeloglutus concavus Aldrich, 1896{{cite journal|last=Naglis|first=S. M.|year=2001|title=Revision of the Neotropical Neurigoninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) I: Coeloglutus Aldrich, Neotonnoiria Robinson, and Paracoeloglutus gen. nov., with the definition the tribe Coeloglutini stat. nov.|url=http://www.diptera.info/downloads/Naglis_2001a.pdf|journal=Studia dipterologica|volume=8|issue=1|pages=189–206}}
  • Medetera subglauca Becker, 1917: Synonym of Medetera signaticornis Loew, 1857
  • Medetera tertia Becker, 1917: Synonym of Medetera muralis Meigen, 1824
  • Medetera turneri Parent, 1934: Synonym of Medetera caffra (Curran, 1927)
  • Medetera vanschuytbroecki Gosseries, 1989: Synonym of Saccopheronta arnaudi Negrobov, Vanschuytbroeck & Grichanov 1981
  • Medetera wheeleri Foote, Coulson & Robinson, 1965: Synonym of Medetera veles Loew, 1861
  • Medetera zairensis Dyte & Smith, 1980:{{cite book|last1=Dyte|first1=C. E.|last2=Smith|first2=K. G. V.|editor1-last=Crosskey|editor1-first=R.W.|chapter=Family Dolichopodidae|title=Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region|date=1980|publisher=British Museum (Natural History)|location=London|isbn=978-0565008215|pages=443–463|chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/62053066}} Synonym of Medetera caffra (Curran, 1927)

The following species have been transferred to other genera:{{Cite journal|last=Grichanov |first=I. Ya. |year=2024 |title=A New Extinct Genus of Long-Legged Flies, with a Brief Review and Key to Extinct Genera of Baltic Amber Dolichopodidae (Diptera) |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=57 |issue=3 supplement |pages=S246–S261 |doi=10.1134/S0031030123600051 }}

  • Medetera hamata Parent, 1936: transferred to Dolichophorus{{cite journal|last1=Grichanov|first1=I.Ya.|year=2024|title=A new species of Dolichophorus Lichtwardt, 1902 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Madagascar with a key to Afrotropical species|journal=Caucasian Entomological Bulletin|volume=20|issue=1|pages=3–7|doi=10.5281/zenodo.10561398|doi-access=free}}
  • Medetera luteoscutata Parent, 1936: transferred to Dolichophorus
  • Medetera vegrandis Frey, 1925: transferred to Micromorphus
  • †Medetera elegantula Meunier, 1907: transferred to Plesiomedetera
  • †Medetera flammea Meunier, 1907: transferred to Plesiomedetera
  • †Medetera lasciva Meunier, 1907: transferred to Plesiomedetera
  • †Medetera mustela Meunier, 1907: transferred to Plesiomedetera
  • †Medetera vana Meunier, 1907: transferred to Plesiomedetera

The following species are unplaced in the family:

  • †Medetera frauenfeldi Giebel, 1856

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