Fannia mollissima (Haliday in Westwood, 1840)
(a lesser house fly)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesFannia mollissima (a lesser house fly)
GenusFannia (lesser house flies)
FamilyFANNIIDAE (lesser house flies)
SuperfamilyMUSCOIDEA (dung and house flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Fannia mollissima (a lesser house fly) :
1: Fannia mollissima (a lesser house fly)
16 Apr 2016 OSGR: SU67 51° 30’ N, 1° 0’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
10 males (+ similar no of putative females) swept off fading male sallow catkins
Image 1: Male - abdomen - ventral view - close-up - magnified - silver backgroundImage 2: Male - abdomen - ventral view - magnified - silver backgroundImage 3: Male - dorsal view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 4: Male - head and thorax - lateral and dorsal views - magnified - silver backgroundImage 5: Male - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 6: Male - lateral view - highly enlarged - silver background (2)Image 7: Male - ventral view - highly enlarged - silver backgroundImage 8: Wing - magnified - white backgroundImage 9: Male - abdomen - dorsal view - microscope low magnification - white backgroundImage 10: Male - genitalia - microscope low magnification - white backgroundImage 11: Male - head and proboscis - anterior view - microscope low magnification - silver backgroundImage 12: Male - head and proboscis - lateral view - microscope low magnification - silver backgroundImage 13: Male - head - antero-dorsal view - microscope low magnification - silver backgroundImage 14: Male - terminalia - microscope low magnification - white background

Fannia mollissima (a lesser house fly) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

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