''Morellia'' is a very large
genus
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from the
fly family
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Muscidae
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Muscidae, some of which are commonly known as house flies or stable flies due to their synanthropy, are worldwide in distribution and contain almost 4,000 described species in ...
.
''Morellia'' are plumpish black flies, largely lacking eye hairs - sparse at most. they have a white dusting on the
parafacialia The parafacial or parafacialia is the area between ptilinal fissure (anatomy), fissure and the compound eye of dipterans.
References
Insect anatomy
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and the
scutum has 4 distinct
longitudinal
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stripes.
Selected species
*''
M. aenescens''
Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
*''
M. asetosa''
Baranoff, 1925
*''
M. basalis''
(Walker
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*Walker, Arizona, in Yavapai County
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, 1853)
*''
M. hortorum''
( Fallén, 1817)
*''
M. micans''
( Macquart, 1855)
*''
M. podagrica''
( Loew, 1857)
*''
M. simplex''
( Loew, 1857)
References
Muscidae
Diptera of North America
Diptera of Europe
Brachycera genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy
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