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Morellia
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Morellia

Morellia is a very large genus from the fly family Muscidae. Morellia are plumpish black flies, largely lacking eye hairs - sparse at most. they have a white dusting on the parafacialia and the scutum has 4 distinct longitudinal stripes.

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10 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Morellia aenescens

speciesMorellia aenescens

Sweat Fly

speciesMorellia simplex

Morellia podagrica

speciesMorellia podagrica

Morellia hortorum

speciesMorellia hortorum

Morellia micans

speciesMorellia micans

Morellia basalis

speciesMorellia basalis

Morellia hortensia

speciesMorellia hortensia

Morellia obscuripes

speciesMorellia obscuripes

Morellia calisia

speciesMorellia calisia

Morellia natalensis

speciesMorellia natalensis

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Recorded sightings

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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 329903.