| Mesembrinellidae | |
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| Mesembrinella caenozoica in Dominican amber | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Section: | Schizophora |
| Subsection: | Calyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Oestroidea |
| Family: | Mesembrinellidae Shannon, 1926[1] |
| Subfamilies | |
Mesembrinellidae is a family of Neotropical flies in the order Diptera, and formerly included in the Calliphoridae. There are 36 described species.[2]
- ^ Shannon, Raymond Corbett (1926). "Synopsis of the American Calliphoridae (Diptera)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 28: 115–139. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ Tonus Marinho, Marco Antonio; Wolff, Marta; Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany; de Azeredo-Espin, Ana Maria Lima; de Souza Amorim, Dalton (2017). "The first phylogenetic study of Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea) based on molecular data: clades and congruence with morphological characters". Cladistics. 33 (2): 134–152. doi:10.1111/cla.12157. PMID 34710970. S2CID 87271179. Retrieved 2 June 2020.