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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » Muscidae » Azeliinae » Reinwardtiini » Muscina

Genus Muscina

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Muscina stabulans - false stable fly? - Muscina stabulans - male

Male, Muscina stabulans? - Muscina stabulans - male

muscid: Muscina levida? - Muscina levida - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Muscidae

Subfamily Azeliinae

Tribe Reinwardtiini

Genus Muscina

Explanation of Names

Muscina Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Numbers

Seven Nearctic species(1):

Muscina dorsilinea (Wulp)

Muscina flukei Snyder

Muscina fulvacrura Snyder

Muscina levida (Harris) (=assimilis Fallén)(2)

Muscina prolapsa (Harris) (=pabulorum Fallén)

Muscina pascuorum (Fallén)

Muscina stabulans (Meigen)

Size

above average for its family

Identification

Keys to species in (3)(4)

Key to Neotropical species in (5)

Range

holarctic & neotropical(6); widespread in our area(1)

Habitat

variety of situations, incl. decomposing organic matter, fungi, carrion, and excrement(3)

Food

Larvae are highly polyphagous facultative carnivores(6) in part saprophagous, coprophagous, and zoophagous(3)

Remarks

Some members of this genus have medical and forensic significance, especially the cosmopolitan M. stabulans. Rare instances of human myiasis involving Muscina spp. have been reported.

Works Cited

1.	Manual of Nearctic Diptera Volume 2 Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood. 1987. Research Branch Agriculture Canada.

2.	The biology of the Muscidae of the world Skidmore P. 1985. Springer, 550 pp.

3.	The Muscidae of California exclusive of subfamilies Muscinae and Stomoxyinae H.C. Huckett. 1975. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 18: 1-148.

4.	Notes and Descriptions of Muscina and Dendrophaonia (Diptera: Muscidae) Snyder FM. 1955. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 48(6):445–452.

5.	Muscidae (Diptera) Of The Neotropical Region. Taxonomy Carvalho, C.J.B . 2002. Editora UFPR.

6.	Manual of Central American Diptera Brian V. Brown et al. 2009. NRC Research Press.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 12 December, 2011 - 12:46am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2023 - 6:55pm

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