Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Brachycera > Infraorder Muscomorpha > Section Schizophora > Subsection Calyptrata > Superfamily Muscoidea

Scathophagidae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthocnema Becker, 1894
Acerocnema Becker, 1894
Allomyella Malloch, 1923
Bostrichopyga Becker, 1894
Chaetosa Coquillett, 1898
Cleigastra Macquart, 1835
Cochliarium Becker, 1894
Conisternum Strobl, 1894
Cordilura Fallén, 1810
Cosmetopus Becker, 1894
Delina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Ernoneura Becker, 1894
Gimnomera Rondani, 1866
Gonarcticus Becker, 1894
Gonatherus Rondani, 1856
Hexamitocera Becker, 1894
Hydromyza Fallén, 1813
Leptopa Zetterstedt, 1838
Megaphthalma Becker, 1894
Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl, 1936
Microprosopa Becker, 1894
Micropselapha Becker, 1894
Nanna Strobl, 1894
Norellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Norellisoma Wahlgren, 1917
Okeniella Hendel, 1907
Orthacheta Becker, 1894
Paracosmetopus Hackman, 1956
Parallelomma Strobl, 1894
Phrosia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
Pleurochaetella Vockeroth, 1965
Pogonota Zetterstedt, 1860
Scathophaginae
Spathephilus Becker, 1894
Spaziphora Rondani, 1856
Staegeria Rondani, 1856
Trichopalpus Rondani, 1856

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: mestvliegen

English: dung-flies sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: åkerfluer sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: åkerfluger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: kolvflugor

Literature

basis of record	Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L.; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 70: 338pp.