Family Chloropidae
(chloropid flies)

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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.

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  Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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  Eumetazoa (metazoans)
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  Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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  Protostomia (protostomes)
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  Ecdysozoa
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  Phylum Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects, spiders, and relatives)
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  Uniramia
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  Subphylum Hexapoda
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  Class Insecta (insects)
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  Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
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  Superorder Neoptera
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  Holometabola
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  Order Diptera (true flies)
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  Suborder Brachycera (circular-seamed flies, muscoid flies, and short-horned flies)
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  Infraorder Muscomorpha
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  Family Chloropidae (chloropid flies)
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  Subfamily Chloropinae
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  Genus Anathracophaga
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  Genus Cetema
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  Genus Chlorops
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  Genus Chloropsina
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  Genus Diplotoxa
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  Genus Ectecephala
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  Genus Elliponeura
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  Genus Epichlorops
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  Genus Homaluroides
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  Genus Lasiosina
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  Genus Meromyza
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  Genus Neodiplotoxa
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  Genus Neoloxotaenia
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  Genus Parectecephala
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  Genus Semaranga
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  Genus Thaumatomyia
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  Genus Trigonomma
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  Subfamily Oscinellinae
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  Genus Apallates
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  Genus Aphanotrigonum
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  Genus Biorbitella
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  Genus Cadrema
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  Genus Calamoncosis
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  Genus Ceratobarys
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  Genus Chaetochlorops
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  Genus Conioscinella
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  Genus Dasyopa
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  Genus Dicraeus
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  Genus Elachiptera
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  Genus Enderleiniella
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  Genus Eribolus
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  Genus Eugaurax
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  Genus Gaurax
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  Genus Goniaspis
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  Genus Goniopsita
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  Genus Hapleginella
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  Genus Hippelates
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  Genus Incertella
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  Genus Lasiopleura
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  Genus Liohippelates
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  Genus Lipara
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  Genus Malloewia
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  Genus Meijerella
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  Genus Melanochaeta
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  Genus Monochaetoscinella
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  Genus Neoscinella
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  Genus Olcella
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  Genus Onychaspidium
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  Genus Opetiophora
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  Genus Oscinella
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  Genus Oscinisoma
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  Genus Oscinoides
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  Genus Pseudogaurax
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  Genus Pseudopachychaeta
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  Genus Rhodesiella
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  Genus Rhopalopterum
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  Genus Sacatonia
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  Genus Siphonella
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  Genus Siphunculina
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  Genus Speccafrons
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  Genus Stenoscinis
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  Genus Tricimba