Musca osiris

Musca osiris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Muscidae
Genus: Musca
Species: M. osiris
Binomial name
Musca osiris
Weidemann, 1830
Synonyms

Musca fulvithorax authors

Musca osiris is a species of fly in the genus Musca. It and Musca vitripennis are the only two species of Musca native to the Palearctic, according to Willi Hennig.[1]

References

  1. Skidmore, Peter (1985). The biology of the Muscidae of the world. Lecture notes in mathematics 1358. Springer. ISBN 90-6193-139-8.


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