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Musca
Musca is a genus of flies. It includes Musca domestica (the common housefly), as well as Musca autumnalis (the face fly or autumn housefly). It is part of the family Muscidae.
41 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common House Fly
speciesMusca domestica
Face fly
speciesMusca autumnalis
Musca vetustissima
speciesMusca vetustissima
Osiris's Fly
speciesMusca osiris
Dog Dung Fly
speciesMusca sorbens
Musca ventrosa
speciesMusca ventrosa
Musca larvipara
speciesMusca larvipara
Musca tempestiva
speciesMusca tempestiva
Musca vitripennis
speciesMusca vitripennis
Musca terraereginae
speciesMusca terraereginae
Musca crassirostris
speciesMusca crassirostris
Musca hervei
speciesMusca hervei
Musca albina
speciesMusca albina
Musca confiscata
speciesMusca confiscata
Musca conducens
speciesMusca conducens
Musca convexifrons
speciesMusca convexifrons
Musca inferior
speciesMusca inferior
Musca seniorwhitei
speciesMusca seniorwhitei
Musca pattoni
speciesMusca pattoni
Musca villeneuvii
speciesMusca villeneuvii
Musca biseta
speciesMusca biseta
Musca tibetana
speciesMusca tibetana
Musca fergusoni
speciesMusca fergusoni
Musca cassara
speciesMusca cassara
Musca aethiops
speciesMusca aethiops
Musca afra
speciesMusca afra
Musca capensis
speciesMusca capensis
Musca conduscens
speciesMusca conduscens
Musca dasyops
speciesMusca dasyops
Musca elatior
speciesMusca elatior
Musca freedmani
speciesMusca freedmani
Musca gabnensis
speciesMusca gabnensis
Musca lasiophthalma
speciesMusca lasiophthalma
Musca liberia
speciesMusca liberia
Musca lusoria
speciesMusca lusoria
Musca minuta
speciesMusca minuta
Musca munroi
speciesMusca munroi
Musca splendens
speciesMusca splendens
Musca transvaalensis
speciesMusca transvaalensis
Musca ruficeps
speciesMusca ruficeps
Musca amita
speciesMusca amita
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Les champignons de la France : histoire, description, culture, usages des espèces comestibles, vénéneuses, suspectes, employés dans les arts, l'industrie, l'économie domestique et la médecine
Cordier, François Simon · n.d. · p.527
An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Vols 1-2)
James Bolton · 1788 · p.236
History of Animals, Book I: On Viviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1554 · p.300
Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2
Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.141
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.662
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.33
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.210
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.208
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.208
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.206
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.190
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.191
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 120157.