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Definition of Superfamily Muscoidea
1. Noun. Two-winged flies especially the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; Tachinidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Diptera, Order Diptera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superfamily Muscoidea
Literary usage of Superfamily Muscoidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"... and among zoologists it is referred to as Musca domestica L. The superfamily
Muscoidea, to which it belongs and of which it is the type, is a very large ..."
2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"This is especially true of the dipterous superfamily Muscoidea. The systematists
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, according to the work they did ..."
3. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"This is especially true of the dipterous superfamily Muscoidea. The systematists
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, according to the work they did ..."
4. Class Book of Economic Entomology: With Special Reference to the Economic by William Lochhead (1919)
"254. BBB. With well developed mouth-parts; palpi present; head with a suture
above the antennae.—superfamily Muscoidea. ..."
5. The Development of the American Alligator (A. Mississippiensis) by Albert Moore Reese (1908)
"This is especially true of the dipterous superfamily Muscoidea. The systematists
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, according to the work they did ..."
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