Musca Linnaeus 1758 (house fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Muscidae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Muscini according to A. Grzywacz et al. 2021

See also Carpenter 1992, Drury 1770, Fabricius 1775, Fabricius 1794, Fabricius 1798, Forster 1771, Geoffroy 1762, Harris 1780, Latreille 1796, Latreille 1802, Linnaeus 1758, Linnaeus 1761, Linnaeus 1767, Müller 1764, Müller 1776, Schaeffer 1766, Scopoli 1763, Scudder 1877 and Strøm 1768

Sister taxa: Archaeopolietes, Pyrellia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Chagrin Valley (Eocene of Colorado)

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