| Oestroidea | |
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| Sarcophaga bercaea (Sarcophagidae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| (unranked): | Eremoneura |
| (unranked): | Cyclorrhapha |
| Section: | Schizophora |
| Subsection: | Calyptratae |
| Superfamily: | Oestroidea |
| Families | |
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Oestroidea is a superfamily of Calyptratae including the blow flies, bot flies, flesh flies, and their relatives.[1][2] It occurs worldwide and has about 15,000 described species.[3]
The superfamily includes the families:
- Calliphoridae
- Mesembrinellidae (formerly included in Calliphoridae)
- Mystacinobiidae
- Oestridae
- Polleniidae (formerly included in Calliphoridae)
- Rhiniidae (formerly included in Calliphoridae)
- Sarcophagidae
- Tachinidae
- Ulurumyiidae[4]
- ^ David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann (2005). "Phylogeny and evolution of Diptera: recent insights and new perspectives". The Evolutionary Biology of Flies. Columbia University Press. pp. 14–44. ISBN 978-0-231-12700-4.
- ^ Cerretti, P; Stireman, JO III; Pape, T; O’Hara, JE; Marinho, MAT; Rognes, K; Grimaldi, DA (2017). "First fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences". PLOS ONE. 12 (8 (e0182101)): e0182101. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1282101C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182101. PMC 5568141. PMID 28832610.
- ^ El-Hawagry, M. S.; El-Azab, S. A. (2019). "Catalog of the Calliphoridae, Rhiniidae, and Sarcophagidae of Egypt (Diptera: Oestroidea)". Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control. 29 (1): 15. doi:10.1186/s41938-019-0118-8. ISSN 2536-9342.
- ^ Michelsen, Verner; Pape, Thomas (2017). "Ulurumyiidae – a new family of calyptrate flies (Diptera)". Systematic Entomology. 42 (4): 826–836. doi:10.1111/syen.12252. S2CID 90058240.