Muscidae

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Coenosia a genus of muscid flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	5 images
Graphomya maculata a muscid fly	Species		52 images
Haematobia irritans Horn Fly	Species			1 ident. refs
Haematobosca stimulans a muscid fly	Species			1 ident. refs
Hebecnema a genus of muscid flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	13 images
Helina a genus of muscid flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	29 images
Hydrotaea a genus of muscid flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	13 images
Lispocephala a genus of flies	Genus	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
Mesembrina meridiana Noon Fly, Black Noon Fly	Species		40 images
Morellia a genus of muscid flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	31 images
Musca house-flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	54 images
Mydaea a genus of muscid flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	19 images
Neomyia green-headed green-bottles	Genus	2 subtaxa	43 images
Phaonia a genus of muscid flies	Genus	5 subtaxa	117 images
Polietes a genus of muscid flies	Genus	1 subtaxa	36 images
Pyrellia rapax a green bottle	Species		21 images
Spanochaeta dorsalis a muscid fly	Species		15 images
Stomoxys calcitrans Stable Fly, Biting Housefly	Species		32 images	1 ident. refs
Thricops a genus of muscid flies	Genus	2 subtaxa	24 images
Muscidae (unidentified) Unidentified Muscid Flies: House Fly, Green Bottles	Unidentified		91 images

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Fonseca, E.C.M. d’Assis	1968	Diptera: Cyclorrapha Calyptrata Sect (b) Muscidae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 4(b), 119pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
	Gregor, F., Rozkosny, R., Barták, & Vanhara, J.	2002	The Muscidae (Diptera) of Central Europe	Folia Fac. Sci. Nat. Univ. Masaryk. Brun., Bio!., 107: 1-280.
Muscini/Genera
	Nihei, S.S. & de Carvalho, C.J.B.	2009	The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses	Zootaxa Vol 1976: 1-24.

MUSCIDAE (muscid flies: house fly, green bottles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MUSCIDAE (muscid flies: house fly, green bottles)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 76 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MUSCIDAE (muscid flies: house fly, green bottles)

Many species breed in dung or carrion. In these cases the females can be found on the substrate, while males wait hopefully on nearby vegetation.

Due to the unsavoury habits of the flies, collecting tubes should be washed in disinfectant after use.

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Family	MUSCIDAE (muscid flies: house fly, green bottles)
Superfamily	MUSCOIDEA (dung and house flies)
Infraorder	Schizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

MUSCIDAE
(muscid flies: house fly, green bottles)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

MUSCIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Muscini/Genera

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