Muscoidea

Muscoidea
Anthomyia pluvialis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
(unranked):	Eremoneura
(unranked):	Cyclorrhapha
Section:	Schizophora
Subsection:	Calyptratae
Superfamily:	Muscoidea
Families
Anthomyiidae — cabbage flies Fanniidae — little house flies Muscidae — house flies Scathophagidae — dung flies

Muscoidea is a superfamily of flies in the subsection Calyptratae. Muscoidea, with approximately 7000 described species, is nearly 5% of the known species level diversity of the Diptera, the true flies. Most muscoid flies are saprophagous, coprophagous or necrophagous as larvae, but some species are parasitic, predatory, or phytophagous.^[1] In September 2008, a study was done on the superfamily using both nucleic and mitochondrial DNA and the conclusion suggested that Muscoidea may actually be paraphyletic.^[2]

References

1. Ding, Shuangmei; Li, Xuankun; Wang, Ning; Cameron, Stephen L.; Mao, Meng; Wang, Yuyu; Xi, Yuqiang; Yang, Ding (2015-07-30). "The Phylogeny and Evolutionary Timescale of Muscoidea (Diptera: Brachycera: Calyptratae) Inferred from Mitochondrial Genomes". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0134170. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1034170D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134170. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4520480. PMID 26225760.
2. Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan; Pape, Thomas; Pont, Adrian; Wiegmann, Brian; Meier, Rudolf (September 2008). "The Muscoidea (Diptera: Calyptratae) are paraphyletic: Evidence from four mitochondrial and four nuclear genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49 (2): 639–652. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.012. PMID 18793735. Retrieved 3 July 2020.