5-737: The Ephydroidea are a superfamily of muscomorph flies , with over 6,000 species. A characteristic of adult Ephydroidea (shared with their relatives such as Calyptratae ) is that the pedicel of the antenna has a dorsoventral seam or incision. Ephydroidea live in many habitats and have diverse diets. For example, most Ephydridae have larvae that are aquatic/semi-aquatic and feed as browsers or filter-feeders , but there are also species with terrestrial larvae that are egg predators , egg parasitoids , leaf miners or saprophages . Most Drosophilidae breed in rotting material where they feed on yeast and bacteria , but there are also species that attack whole fruits. A 2021 analysis found Ephydroidea to be
10-511: Is by a circular line of weakness, and this pupal type is called "cyclorrhaphous"; this feature gives this group of flies their traditional name, Cyclorrhapha . The name Cyclorrhapha is used, in various modern classifications, to represent either a subgroup within the infraorder Muscomorpha, or simply a rankless group within the Brachycera. In either case, the Empidoidea are the sister taxon to
15-440: The housefly , the fruit fly , and the blow fly . The antennae are short, usually three-segmented, with a dorsal arista . Their bodies are often highly setose, and the pattern of setae is often taxonomically important. The larvae of muscomorphs (in the sense the name is used here; see below) have reduced head capsules, and the pupae are formed inside the exoskeleton of the last larval instar . Exit from this puparium
20-413: The sister taxon to Calyptratae. This article related to members of the muscomorph flies superfamily Ephydroidea is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Muscomorpha The Brachyceran infraorder Muscomorpha is a large and diverse group of flies, containing the bulk of the Brachycera and most of the known flies . It includes a number of the most familiar flies, such as
25-520: The Cyclorrhapha. In the present classification, as the term Muscomorpha is used to refer to the sister taxon of the Empidoidea, the names "Muscomorpha" and "Cyclorrhapha" are effectively synonymous (though not entirely interchangeable: for nomenclatural purposes, it is always considered better if the endings of names of similar rank are consistent, and since all the other infraordinal names end in "-morpha",
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