Cyclorrhapha
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| Cyclorrhapha | |
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| Musca domestica | |
Scientific classification |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Suborder: | Brachycera |
| Infraorder: | Muscomorpha |
| (unranked): | Eremoneura |
| (unranked): | Cyclorrhapha |
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Cyclorrhapha is an unranked taxon within the infraorder Muscomorpha. They are called “Cyclorrhapha” (‘circular-seamed flies’)[1] with reference to the circular aperture through which the adult escapes the puparium.[2] This is a circumscriptional name that has significant historical familiarity, but in the present classification, this name is synonymous with the more recent “Muscomorpha” [3]
Cyclorrhapha underwent major adaptive radiation that led to the creation of over 72 000 species. These species share multiple attributes such as the 360-degree rotation of the male terminalia.[4]