Nihei, Silvio Shigueo;Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De
Morellia
Sign in to saveMorellia is a very large genus from the fly family Muscidae. Morellia are plumpish black flies, largely lacking eye hairs - sparse at most. they have a white dusting on the parafacialia and the scutum has 4 distinct longitudinal stripes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyMuscidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 96
- Family
- Muscidae
- Collections
- UAM, USNM, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, UMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Myanmar, Canada, Austria
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- Morellia
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- Category:Morellia
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- Morellia
- diel cycle
- diurnality
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Selected species
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Morellia is a very large genus from the fly family Muscidae. Morellia are plumpish black flies, largely lacking eye hairs - sparse at most. they have a white dusting on the parafacialia and the scutum has 4 distinct longitudinal stripes.
==Selected species== M. aenescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 M. asetosa Baranoff, 1925 M. basalis (Walker, 1853) M. hortorum (Fallén, 1817) M. micans (Macquart, 1855) M. podagrica (Loew, 1857) M. simplex (Loew, 1857)
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