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]

Medetera
Medetera sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Medeterinae
Tribe: Medeterini
Genus: Medetera
Fischer von Waldheim, 1819[1]
Type species
Medetera carnivora
(= Musca diadema Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms[2][3][4]

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 edit

Taxonomy follows Bickel (1985, 1987),[2][12] though some of the species groups are treated as separate genera by other authors.[15]

Unsorted:

The following species are nomina dubia:[12]

The following species are synonyms of other species:

The following species have been moved to other genera:[15]

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