Family MUSCIDAE
Compiler and date details
10 July 2007 - Michale Elliot, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Introduction
The very familiar Australian muscids are the house fly and bush fly. In total, though, 5 muscid subfamilies, 37 genera and 185 species are recorded for Australia. General information on the family, and broad distributions of taxa are available from Hamilton et al. (2006) and Evenhuis's (2007) online Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions.
General References
Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.) 2007. Family Muscidae. In, Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. (online version)
Hamilton, J. et al. 2006. On the Fly, The interactive atlas and key to Australian fly families. [CD-Rom] CBIT & Australian Biological Resources Study, Brisbane & Canberra