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Superfamily Oestroidea

Cluster Fly? - Pollenia Largish fly Mating Flies - male - female Sylphid Perhaps - Trichopoda pennipes Chrysomya megacephala? - Chrysomya megacephala - male Fly Trichopoda pennipes? - Trichopoda Muscidae?
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.