living organisms
 see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
  
 Superkingdom Eukaryotae
 see Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925
    
 Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
      
 Subkingdom Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910
 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
        
 Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848 - arthropods
          
 Subphylum Uniramia Snodgrass, 1935
 see Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848
            
 Class Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 - insects
              
 Subclass Pterygota Lang, 1888 - winged insects
 see Infraclass Pterygota Lang, 1888
                
 Infraclass Neoptera Martynov, 1923 - modern, wing-folding insects
 see Division Neoptera Martynov, 1923
                  
 Superorder Holometabola - holometabolans
 see Subdivision Endopterygota Sharp, 1899
                    
 Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 - true flies, mosquitoes, gnats
                      
 Suborder Brachycera Zetterstedt, 1842
                        
 Infraorder Cyclorrhapha Brauer, 1863
 see [unranked] Cyclorrhapha
                          
 Series Schizophora Becher, 1882
 see [unranked] Schizophora
                            
 Superfamily Muscoidea Latreille, 1802
                              
 Family Hippoboscidae Samouelle, 1819
                                
 1 Genus Melophagus Latreille, 1802
                                
 2 Subfamily Ornithoicinae
                                
 3 Subfamily Ornithomyinae Costa, 1846
                                
 4 Subfamily Ortholfersiinae
                                
 5 Subfamily Hippoboscinae
                                
 6 Subfamily Alloboscinae
                                
 7 Subfamily Lipopteninae