Talk:Muscidae

Translation

I am not an entymologist and do not know the meaning of this next section. Can someone translate? aristate; vein Rs 2-branched, frontal suture present, calypters well developed. Arista usually plumose for the entire length. Hypopleuron usually without bristles; generally more than one sternopleural bristle. R5 cell either parallel sided or narrowed distally. Vein 2A short and not reaching wing margin. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spacecase610 (talk • contribs) 21:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC).

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Muscidae (Graphomya eustolia pictured) is a family of flies commonly known as the house flies. They are differentiated by the plumose apical segment of the antennae with a smooth basal portion.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Antenna

I'm going to remove the remark about the antenna in the lead paragraph. It's not true of the entire family and is too trivial to be the second sentence of the article. The statement "The arista is usually plumose for the entire length" appears later, covering the subject. I'll change "usually" to "often" because I don't know a source that says "usually". For example Manual of Nearctic Diptera says "bare to long plumose, or, rarely, pectinate." The house fly and many (most?) other Muscini have plumose arista, but based on unscientific observations most of the rest of the family does not. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 00:19, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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Some redirects to clean up

Some of the genera in the list here seem to redirect to entirely different genera (mostly plants from what I can tell). These are Auria, Crucianella, Drymeia, and Reinwardtia; there is also Ophyra, which appears to redirect to Hydrotaea which is already on this list on its own. I'm guessing that at some point these genera were renamed and this list was never updated. Hopefully an entomologist or taxonomist will be able to assist with cleaning these up. Lumberjane Lilly (talk) 19:53, 13 June 2024 (UTC)