Kingdom Animalia Order Diptera Infraorder Muscomorpha Scientific name Muscinae Higher classification Muscidae | Phylum Arthropoda Suborder Brachycera Superfamily Muscoidea Lifespan Housefly: 28 days Rank Subfamily | |
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Lower classifications Housefly, Musca, Stable fly, Horn fly, Hydrotaea | ||
Within the taxonomy of biology, the subfamily Muscinae includes two of the more familiar genera within the Muscidae family; Musca and Stomoxys.
The bulk of the species are in the tribe Muscini.
From the 19th century, the term "Muscinae" is also an obsolete scientific name for the mosses (modern Bryophyta), once used in the taxonomy of Ernst Haeckel (circa 1899).
Identification
The tip of the scutellum is reddish, cell R5 is somewhat narrowed distally, and all coxae black.
References
Muscinae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA