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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea

Superfamily Oestroidea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Works Cited
Tachinid? - Campylocheta teliosis - female Blow Fly Lucilla sp. - Lucilia coeruleiviridis Muscidae? fly.striped abdomen - Lucilia Bee mimic tachnid fly, maybe Juriniopsis - Juriniopsis fly tachinid fly 9081238 Tachinid
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon (Calyptratae)
Superfamily Oestroidea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
see (1)(2)
Numbers
~15,000 spp. worldwide arranged into 6-7 families(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.Molecular phylogenetics of Oestroidea (Diptera: Calyptratae) with emphasis on Calliphoridae...
Marinho MAT, Junqueira ACM, Paulo DF, Esposito MC, Villet MH, Azeredo-Espina AML. 2012. Mol. Phylog. Evol. 65: 840-854.
2.Reclustering the cluster flies (Diptera: Oestroidea, Polleniidae)
Cerretti P, Stireman JO, Badano D, Gisondi S, Rognes K, Lo Giudice G, Pape T. 2019. Sys. Entomol. 44: 957-972.
Contributed by Richard Leung on 19 March, 2005 - 9:45pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 10 September, 2021 - 7:33pm

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