Muscidae Latreille, 1802

Michelsen, Verner, 2022, Costal vein chaetotaxy, a neglected character source in Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera: Calyptratae), European Journal of Taxonomy 826, pp. 94-134 : 103

Family Muscidae Latreille, 1802

The Muscidae with ca 5000 described species represent one of the largest radiations among the calyptrate families. The classification adopted here is fairly conventional, morphology based, but slightly updated according to results obtained from analyses of molecular data presented in particular by Kutty et al. (2014). It recognizes eight subfamilies, seven tribes and 179 genus-group taxa ( Table 1 ).

Species from 115 muscid genera and subgenera have presently been examined for the distribution of setulae ventrally and dorsally on vein C (character A) in agreement with the nine states described above ( Table 1 ).