Cyclorrhapha

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Cyclorrhapha

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Cyclorrhapha
Musca domestica
Musca domestica
Scientific classificatione
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]

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