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Muscoidea
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<p>Muscoidea is a <a href="/facts/Superfamily_(zoology)/bPFQpe9A">superfamily</a> of flies in the subsection <a href="/facts/Calyptratae/TITpRA3o">Calyptratae</a>. Muscoidea, with approximately 7000 described species, is nearly 5% of the known species level diversity of the <a href="/facts/Fly/ugzGBFKG">Diptera</a>, the true flies. Most muscoid flies are <a href="/facts/Saprophagy/2jfASdo0">saprophagous</a>, <a href="/facts/Coprophagia/qkC0aGDv">coprophagous</a> or <a href="/facts/Scavenger/rfMKhUmh">necrophagous</a> as larvae, but some species are parasitic, predatory, or <a href="/facts/Herbivore/me4YFdQA">phytophagous</a>. In September 2008, a study was done on the superfamily using both nucleic and mitochondrial <a href="/facts/DNA/nB89Iauz">DNA</a> and the conclusion suggested that Muscoidea may actually be <a href="/facts/Paraphyletic/tmTWjACz">paraphyletic</a>. </p>