Mesembrinellidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Schizophora
Subsectio: Calyptratae
Superfamilia: Oestroidea

Familia: Mesembrinellidae
Genera: Albuquerquea – Eumesembrinella – Giovanella – Henriquella – Huascaromusca – Laneella – Mesembrinella – Souzalopesiella – Thompsoniella
Name

Mesembrinellidae Shannon, 1926: 116, 177

Type genus: Mesembrinella Giglio-Tos, 1893, by monotypy.
Combinations

Mesembrinellinae Shannon, 1926: 116, 117 [original combination, as subfamilia]
Mesembrinellini — Townsend, 1934: 110 [name combination, reduce to tribus]
Mesembrinellidae — Guimarães, 1977: 15 [name combination, elevate to familia]

References
Primary references

Shannon, R.C. 1926. Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 28: 115–139. BHL
Townsend, C.H.T. 1934. Muscoid notes and descriptions. Revista de Entomologia 4: 110–112.
Guimarães, J.H. 1977. A systematic revision of the Mesembrinellidae, stat. nov. (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha). Arquivos de Zoologia 29: 1–109.

Additional references

Bonatto, S.R. & L. Marinoni, 2005. New genera and species of Mesembrinellinae (Diptera, Calliphoridae) from Costa Rica and Venezuela. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22(4): 883–890. Full article (PDF)
Wolff, M. ; Y. Ramos-Pastrana & J.R. Pujol-Luz, 2013. A new species of Giovanella Bonatto (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellinae) from Colombia. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 57(2): 129–132. Full article (PDF)
Wolff, M.I. & Kosmann, C. 2016. FAMILIES CALLIPHORIDAE AND MESEMBRINELLIDAE. In Wolff, M.I., Nihei, S.S. & Carvalho, C.J.B. de (eds.), Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa 4122(1): 856–875. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.72. Reference page.
Velásquez, Y., Martínez-Sánchez, A.I., Thomas, A. & Rojo, S. 2017. Checklist and distribution maps of the blow flies of Venezuela (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae). ZooKeys 645: 103–132. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.645.6972 Reference page.