Morellia
Morellia is a very large genus from the fly family Muscidae. Morellia are plumpish black flies, largely lacking eye hairs - sparse at most. they have a white dusting on the parafacialia and the scutum has 4 distinct longitudinal stripes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyMuscidae
Observations43
via GBIF
Article
2 sectionsContents
- Selected species
- References
Morellia is a very large genus from the fly family Muscidae. Morellia are plumpish black flies, largely lacking eye hairs - sparse at most. they have a white dusting on the parafacialia and the scutum has 4 distinct longitudinal stripes.
==Selected species== M. aenescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 M. asetosa Baranoff, 1925 M. basalis (Walker, 1853) M. hortorum (Fallén, 1817) M. micans (Macquart, 1855) M. podagrica (Loew, 1857) M. simplex (Loew, 1857)