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Calyptratae

Representative Images

Fly Golden Dung Flies Mating - Scathophaga stercoraria - male - female Fly Portrait Tachina Fly - Trichopoda pennipes Rabbit Bot Fly - Cuterebra lepusculi - female Greenbottle blow fly - Lucilia Tachinid? - Pollenia - male Hippoboscidae - Pseudolynchia canariensis Tachinid - Cholomyia inaequipes - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon Calyptratae

Numbers

~18,000 described spp. worldwide(1)

Identification

3-segmented antennae with an arista, wings usually with a prominent lower calypter, second antennal segment with longitudinal suture, thorax with greater ampulla
wing diagrams of several cosmopolitan filth fly spp.(2)
Key to forensically important families (adults), by R.M. Cutter

Range

worldwide

Remarks

Probably a monophyletic group, but the arrangement of subordinate taxa needs clarification; the one used in the guide may be artificial.(1)

Works Cited

1.Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)...
S.N. Kutty, T. Pape, B.M. Wiegmann, R. Meier. 2010. Systematic Entomology 35: 614–635.
2.Fly control in livestock and poultry production, by Novartis Animal Health Inc.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 14 April, 2005 - 7:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, xylo, v belov, Robert H. Biagi, Arturo Santos
Last updated 18 August, 2024 - 5:24pm

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