Calyptratae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Clade: | Eremoneura |
| (unranked): | Cyclorrhapha |
| Section: | Schizophora |
| Subsection: | Calyptratae |
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Calyptratae is a subsection of Schizophora in the insect order Diptera, commonly referred to as the calyptrate muscoids (or simply calyptrates). It consists of those flies which possess a calypter that covers the halteres, among which are some of the most familiar of all flies, such as the house fly.
About 18,000 described species are in this group, or about 12% of all the flies yet described.[1]
Subsection
[edit | edit source]- Superfamily Muscoidea
- Anthomyiidae - cabbage flies
- Fanniidae
- Muscidae - house flies
- Scathophagidae - dung flies
- Superfamily Oestroidea
- Superfamily Hippoboscoidea
The Mormotomyiidae belong to the Ephydroidea and not to Hippoboscoidea as previously construed.[3] The Streblidae are probably not monophyletic.[4]
References
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- ^ Petersen, Frederik Torp; Meier, Rudolf; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan & Wiegmann, Brian M. (2007): The phylogeny and evolution of host choice in the Hippoboscoidea (Diptera) as reconstructed using four molecular markers. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45(1): 111–122. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (HTML abstract)
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