Muscoidea

Muscoidea
	Anthomyia pluvialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
(unranked):	Eremoneura
(unranked):	Cyclorrhapha
Section:	Schizophora
Subsection:	Calyptratae
Superfamily:	Muscoidea
Families
	Anthomyiidae — cabbage flies; Fanniidae — little house flies; Muscidae — house flies; Scathophagidae — dung flies;

Muscoidea is a superfamily of flies in the subsection Calyptratae. Muscoidea, with approximately 7000 described species, is nearly 5% of the known species level diversity of the Diptera, the true flies. Most muscoid flies are saprophagous, coprophagous or necrophagous as larvae, but some species are parasitic, predatory, or phytophagous.[1]

References

Ding, Shuangmei; Li, Xuankun; Wang, Ning; Cameron, Stephen L.; Mao, Meng; Wang, Yuyu; Xi, Yuqiang; Yang, Ding (2015-07-30). "The Phylogeny and Evolutionary Timescale of Muscoidea (Diptera: Brachycera: Calyptratae) Inferred from Mitochondrial Genomes". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0134170. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134170. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4520480. PMID 26225760.

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[1] Ding, Shuangmei; Li, Xuankun; Wang, Ning; Cameron, Stephen L.; Mao, Meng; Wang, Yuyu; Xi, Yuqiang; Yang, Ding (2015-07-30). "The Phylogeny and Evolutionary Timescale of Muscoidea (Diptera: Brachycera: Calyptratae) Inferred from Mitochondrial Genomes". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0134170. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134170. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4520480. PMID 26225760.