Cyclorrhapha

Cyclorrhapha

Cyclorrhapha

Group of flies

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]

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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]

References

  1. [1]
    Borror, Donald J.; Triplehorn, Charles A.; Johnson, Norman F. (2009). An Introduction to the Study of Insects, Sixth Edition. Saunders College Publishing, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Philadelphia. pp. 501, 548. ISBN 978-0-03-025397-3.
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    Borror, Donald J.; Triplehorn, Charles A.; Johnson, Norman F. (2009). An Introduction to the Study of Insects, Sixth Edition. Saunders College Publishing, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, Philadelphia. p. 548. ISBN 978-0-03-025397-3.
  3. [3]
    Marchiori, Carlos Henrique (30 September 2021). "Study of Diptera species of medical, sanitary, veterinary, and economic importance in Brazil: Bibliographic summary" (PDF). Open Access Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies. 1 (2): 066–078. doi:10.53022/oarjms.2021.1.2.0032.
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    de Oliveira, Janaina Lima; Sobrinho-Junior, Iderval Silva; Chahad-Ehlers, Samira; de Brito, Reinaldo Alves (11 September 2017). "Evolutionary coincidence of adaptive changes in exuperantia and the emergence of bicoid in Cyclorrhapha (Diptera)". Development Genes and Evolution. 227 (5): 355–365. doi:10.1007/s00427-017-0594-3. PMC 5597691. PMID 28894941.


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