Calyptratae is a subsection of
Schizophora in the
insect
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order
Diptera
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, 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
The housefly (''Musca domestica'') is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha. It possibly originated in the Middle East, and spread around the world as a commensal of humans. Adults are gray to black, with four dark, longitudinal lines on the t ...
.
About 18,000 described species are in this group, or about 12% of all the flies yet described.
Subsection
*Superfamily
Muscoidea
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Anthomyiidae - cabbage flies
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Fanniidae
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Muscidae - house flies
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Scathophagidae - dung flies
*Superfamily
Oestroidea
Oestroidea is a superfamily (zoology), superfamily of Calyptratae that includes the Calliphoridae, blow flies, bot flies, flesh flies, and their relatives. It occurs worldwide and has about 15,000 described species.
Evolution and phylogeny
The ...
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Calliphoridae
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Mystacinobiidae
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Oestridae
Botflies, also known as warble flies, heel flies, and gadflies, are flies of the family Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. ''Dermatobia hominis'' is t ...
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Rhinophoridae
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Sarcophagidae
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Tachinidae
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Ulurumyiidae
*Superfamily
Hippoboscoidea
Hippoboscoidea is a superfamily (zoology), superfamily of the Calyptratae. The flies in this superfamily are blood-feeding obligate parasites of their hosts. Four family (biology), families are often placed here:
*Glossinidae - Tsetse fly, Tsets ...
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Glossinidae
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Hippoboscidae
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Nycteribiidae
Nycteribiidae is a family of the true fly superfamily Hippoboscoidea. Together with their close relatives the Streblidae, they are known as "bat flies". As the latter do not seem to be a monophyletic group, it is conceivable that bat flies ca ...
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Streblidae
The
Mormotomyiidae belong to the
Ephydroidea and not to Hippoboscoidea as previously construed.
The Streblidae are probably not
monophyletic
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# the grouping contains its own most recent co ...
.
[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. (HTML abstract)]
References
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