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Musca

Insecta - Diptera - Muscidae

Taxonomy

Musca was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Muscinae, Muscini, Muscides.

It was assigned to Halterata by Scopoli (1763); to Antliata by Fabricius (1794); to Diptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Harris (1780), Latreille (1796); to Antliata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Muscides by Latreille (1802); to Muscidae by Scudder (1877), Carpenter (1992); and to Muscini by Grzywacz et al. (2021).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Musca Linnaeus p. 589
1761	Musca Linnaeus p. 439
1762	Musca Geoffroy p. 483
1763	Musca Scopoli p. 325
1764	Musca Müller p. 80
1766	Musca Schaeffer
1767	Musca Linnaeus p. 979
1768	Musca Strøm p. 353
1770	Musca Drury
1771	Musca Forster p. 95
1775	Musca Fabricius p. 773
1776	Musca Müller p. 171
1780	Musca Harris p. 73
1794	Musca Fabricius p. 312
1796	Musca Latreille p. 170
1798	Musca Fabricius p. 563
1802	Musca Latreille p. 454
1877	Musca Scudder p. 756
1992	Musca Carpenter
2021	Musca Grzywacz et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
—	Heterodactyla
—	Eremoneura
suborder	Cyclorrhapha	()
—	Schizophora
—	Calyptratae	()
family	Muscidae	()
subfamily	Muscinae
tribe	Muscini
genus	Musca

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Musca Linnaeus 1758

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Bridgerian or 51.10000 to 45.90000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian	51.1 - 45.9	USA (Colorado)	M. sp. (121146)