BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)
MUSCOMORPHA
(hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)
Muscomorpha
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

MUSCOMORPHA (hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Section (Zoo.) Aschiza (hover, drone, big-headed, scuttle, flat-footed, big-footed & pointed-wing flies) 97 514 576 22 66
Section (Zoo.) Schizophora (acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue & green bottles) 270        
Section (Zoo.) Acalyptrata (acalypterate flies) 165 427 1063 150 165
Section (Zoo.) Calyptrata (dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue & green bottles) 105 582 1280 77 106

Suggested Literature

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 87 general literature references to MUSCOMORPHA (hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)

MUSCOMORPHA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3341 feeding and other relationships of MUSCOMORPHA (hover, scuttle, acalypterate, dung, house & parasitoid flies, blue/green bottles)

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