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WoRMS taxon details

Brachycera

AphiaID

150921 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:150921)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Suborder

Parent

Diptera

Direct children (16)

Ordering

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By status

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Infraorder Asilomorpha
Family Conopidae Latreille, 1802
Family Cryptochetidae Brues & Melander, 1932
Family Lonchaeidae
Family Milichiidae Schiner, 1862
Infraorder Muscomorpha
Family Oestridae
Family Pipunculidae Walker, 1834
Family Rhagionidae Latreille, 1802
Family Sarcophagidae Macquart, 1834
Family Scenopinidae Burmeister, 1835
Infraorder Stratiomyomorpha
Infraorder Tabanomorpha
Family Tephritidae Linnaeus, 1758
Infraorder Vermileonomorpha
Infraorder Xylophagomorpha

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2026). Brachycera. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=150921 on 2026-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-05 07:38:13Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2016-03-11 10:20:38Z

checked

Mortelmans, Jonas

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Nomenclature

basis of record Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors