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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Dung Flies (Scathophagidae) » Scathophaga

Genus Scathophaga

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Scatophaga stercoraria - Scathophaga stercoraria Dung Fly portrait - Scathophaga - male 6016611 fly - Scathophaga Scathophaga sp. ? - Scathophaga Robber Fly - Scathophaga green dung fly - Scathophaga stercoraria Brown Fly - Scathophaga more dung flies mating - Scathophaga - male - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Muscoidea
Family Scathophagidae (Dung Flies)
Genus Scathophaga
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Apparently it was Scatophaga at one point, but according to NAL Agricultural Thesaurus, Scathophaga is preferred.
Numbers
Nearctica lists 29 species.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 29 October, 2004 - 4:30pm
Additional contributions by jvandyk, Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 27 January, 2008 - 3:58pm

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