Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Arthropoda - (Class) Insecta - (Order) Diptera

Subsequent entries

Musca (Genus) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Muscoidea (Superfamily) Latreille, 1802

Ref: P.L.Th. Beuk, 2002: 19.

Alternative positions

Calyptrata (Family group)	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975
Calyptratae ([unranked])	Ref: F.C. Thompson, [1996]-2008: 20 Jul 2006.
Diptera (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
Schizophora (Tribe) Becher, 1882	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 601.

Historical positions

Calyptratae ([unranked])	Ref: F.C. Thompson, [1996]-2008: 20 Jul 2006.
Muscoidea (Superfamily) Latreille, 1802	Ref: P.L.Th. Beuk, 2002: 19.
Muscoidea (Superfamily) Latreille, 1802	Ref: D.J. Bickel, 1982: 595.
Schizophora (Tribe) Becher, 1882	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979: 601-602.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	60g;23s;4ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	7sf>100g>3000s
1982	D.J. Bickel: 595	7sf>100g>3000s