Melaloncha Publications and Species Photographs
Melaloncha elongata - photo by S.A. Marshall
Revisions with classifications and photographs:
Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha
Revision of the Melaloncha cingulata-group
Revision of the Melaloncha furcata-group
Revision of the Melaloncha ungulata-group
Revision of the untreated taxa of Melaloncha
Complete list of Melaloncha publications:
Brown, B.V. 2001. Beginning to study the bee-killing flies, the parasitoid genus Melaloncha Brues. Phorid Newsletter. 9: 1-5. PDF
Brown, B.V. 2004. Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Metopininae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 140: 1-42. PDF
Brown, B.V. 2004. Revision of the Melaloncha cingulata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97: 386-392.
Brown, B.V. 2005. Revision of the Melaloncha furcata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Insect Systematics and Evolution. 36: 241-258. PDF
Brown, B.V. 2006. Revision of the untreated taxa of Melaloncha s. s. bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 1280: 68 pp. (PDF available upon request from the author)
Brown, B.V. 2009. Three new species of parasitoid Phoridae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region. Sociobiology. 54: 715-722. PDF
Brown, B.V. and G. Kung. 2006. Revision of the Melaloncha ungulata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 507, 31 pp. PDF
Brown, B. V. & P. T. Smith. 2010. The bee-killing flies, genus Melaloncha Brues (Diptera: Phoridae): a combined molecular and morphological phylogeny. Systematic Entomology. 35: 649-657. PDF
Gonzalez, L. & B.V. Brown. 2004. New species and records of Melaloncha (Udamochiras) bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 730: 1-14. PDF
Kung, G. 2008. Two new species of the Melaloncha ungulata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Sociobiology. 51: 491-496.
Smith, P. T. and B. V. Brown. 2008. Utility of DNA sequences for inferring phylogenetic relationships and associating morphologically dissimilar males and females of the bee-killing flies, genus Melaloncha (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101: 713-721.
Holotype Archive of older Melaloncha species:
Melaloncha piliapex (lectotype)