Superfamily Hippoboscoidea

Classification · Remarks · Works Cited

Hippoboscid Fly, from White-throated Sparrow

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon (Calyptratae)

Superfamily Hippoboscoidea

Remarks

No consensus on family-level classification among experts: apart from the monophyletic Afrotropical Glossinidae (tse-tse flies), the remainder of this group is either divided into 3 families by some(1), or considered to be a single family by others [e.g.(2)(3)]

Works Cited

1.	Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nycteribiid and streblid bat flies (Diptera: Brachycera, Calyptratae): ... Dittmar K., Porter M.L., Murray S., Whiting M.F. 2006. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 38: 155–170.

2.	The phylogeny and evolution of host choice in the Hippoboscoidea (Diptera) as reconstructed using four molecular markers Petersen F.T., Meier R., Kutty S.N., Wiegmann B.M. 2007. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45: 111–122.

3.	Molecular phylogeny of the Calyptratae (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha)... S.N. Kutty, T. Pape, B.M. Wiegmann, R. Meier. 2010. Systematic Entomology 35: 614–635.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 27 February, 2007 - 9:45pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2011 - 5:07pm

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