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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Dolichopodidae |
| Genus: | Medetera |
| Species: | M. aberrans
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| Binomial name | |
| Medetera aberrans Wheeler, 1899
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Medetera aberrans is a species of long-legged fly in the family Dolichopodidae.1234 It is found in eastern North America. Adults of the species are generally colored a metallic green, with yellow legs. Not much is known about the biology of the species, but adults have frequently been collected from wet grasslands or marshes.53
In Bickel (1985)'s revision of the genus Medetera in the Nearctic realm, M. aberrans is included as a member of the aberrans species group.53 Alternatively, this species group has been treated as a separate genus, Saccopheronta.6
References
References
- "Medetera aberrans Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- "Medetera aberrans". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- "Medetera aberrans species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- Pollet, Marc A. A.; Brooks, Scott E.; Cumming, Jeffrey M. (2004). "Catalog of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of America North of Mexico". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 2004 (283): 1–114. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)283<0001:COTDDO>2.0.CO;2.
- Bickel, D. J. (1985). "A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)". Technical Bulletin (1692). United States Department of Agriculture: 1–109. doi:10.22004/ag.econ.309598. ISSN 0082-9811.
- Grichanov, I.Ya. (1997). "Four new species of Saccopheronta Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Tropical Africa with notes on the world fauna of the genus". International Journal of Dipterological Research. 8 (3): 123–134.