House Fly (Musca domestica) Mating – Lalat Rumah Kawin

Common Names

Scientific: Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758

Indonesian: Lalat, Laler, Lalat Rumah

English: House Fly, Housefly, Oriental House Fly

French: mouche domestique

German: Gemeine Stubenfliege, Große Stubenfliege, hausfliege, Stubenfliege, Stallfliege

The housefly is an object of biological research, mainly because of one remarkable quality: the sex determination mechanism. Although a wide variety of sex determination mechanisms exist in nature (e.g. male and female heterogamy, haplodiploidy, environmental factors) the way sex is determined is usually fixed within one species. However, the housefly exhibits many different mechanisms for sex determination, such as male heterogamy (like most insects and mammals), female heterogamy (like birds) and maternal control over offspring sex. This makes the housefly one of the most suitable species to study the evolution of sex determination.

Scientific Classification of  House Fly (Musca domestica) – Lalat Rumah

Domain Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 – eukaryotes / lifeforms with nucletic cells

Kingdom Animalia C. Linnaeus, 1758 – animals

Subkingdom Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 – bilaterians

Branch Protostomia Grobben, 1908 – protostomes

Infrakingdom Ecdysozoa A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans

Superphylum Panarthropoda Cuvier

Phylum Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 – arthropods

Subphylum Mandibulata Snodgrass, 1938

Infraphylum Atelocerata Heymons, 1901

Superclass Panhexapoda

Class Insecta C. Linnaeus, 1758 – insects

Subclass Dicondylia

Infraclass Pterygota - winged Insects

Superorder Panorpida

Order Diptera C. Linnaeus, 1758 - true flies, mosquitoes, gnats

Suborder Brachycera Schiner, 1862

Infraorder Muscomorpha

Superfamily Muscoidea

Family Muscidae - house flies, stable flies, etc.

Subfamily Muscinae

Tribe Muscini

Genus Musca C. Linnaeus, 1758

Species M. domestica

Botanical/Scientific name: Musca domestica C. Linnaeus, 1758

Subspecies

Musca domestica calleva Walker, 1849

Musca domestica domestica Linnaeus, 1758

references:

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housefly
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscini
• Scientific Classification in Biology
• taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=29219&tree=0.1
• www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id122031/
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrididae

Photos of  House Fly (Musca domestica) Mating – Lalat Rumah Kawin were taken using a camera phone Sony Ericsson K800i in the backyard in Jonggol, West Java, Indonesia.

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