Muscoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of flies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Anthomyia pluvialis01.jpg

| image_caption = Anthomyia pluvialis

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| taxon = Muscoidea

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| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = *Anthomyiidae — cabbage flies

• Fanniidae — little house flies
• Muscidae — house flies
• Scathophagidae — dung flies

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Muscoidea is a superfamily of flies in the subsection Calyptratae. Muscoidea, with approximately 7000 described species, is nearly 5% of the known species level diversity of the Diptera, the true flies. Most muscoid flies are saprophagous, coprophagous or necrophagous as larvae, but some species are parasitic, predatory, or phytophagous.{{Cite journal|last1=Ding|first1=Shuangmei|last2=Li|first2=Xuankun|last3=Wang|first3=Ning|last4=Cameron|first4=Stephen L.|last5=Mao|first5=Meng|last6=Wang|first6=Yuyu|last7=Xi|first7=Yuqiang|last8=Yang|first8=Ding|date=2015-07-30|title=The Phylogeny and Evolutionary Timescale of Muscoidea (Diptera: Brachycera: Calyptratae) Inferred from Mitochondrial Genomes|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=10|issue=7|pages=e0134170|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0134170|issn=1932-6203|pmc=4520480|pmid=26225760|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1034170D|doi-access=free}}

In September 2008, a study was done on the superfamily using both nucleic and mitochondrial DNA and the conclusion suggested that Muscoidea may actually be paraphyletic.{{cite journal |last1=Kutty |first1=Sujatha Narayanan |last2=Pape |first2=Thomas |last3=Pont |first3=Adrian |last4=Wiegmann |first4=Brian |last5=Meier |first5=Rudolf |title=The Muscoidea (Diptera: Calyptratae) are paraphyletic: Evidence from four mitochondrial and four nuclear genes |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=September 2008 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=639–652 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2008.08.012 |pmid=18793735 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23257912 |access-date=3 July 2020}}