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Card 53/90

Name

Muscidae

fly

Framing

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Hexapoda

Subclass: Insecta

Order: Diptera

Family: Muscidae

Habitat

Human dwellings, on garbage and food scraps

Feeding

Fluidophagous adults. Variable in larvae

Distribution

Cosmopolitan

Conservation status

No threats

Additional information

Body shape variable according to species. With only one pair of wings. Hind wings reduced in outriggers.

Additional information

Bibliography

Iberfauna. 2008. Genus Musca. Linnaeus, 1758. En: IBERFAUNA. El Banco de Datos de la Fauna Ibérica. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC).