Morellia

Morellia is a very large genus from the fly family Muscidae.^[1][2] 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.^[2]

Morellia
Morellia aenescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Muscidae
Subfamily:	Muscinae
Tribe:	Muscini
Genus:	Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Selected species

• M. aenescens Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
• M. asetosa Baranoff, 1925
• M. basalis (Walker, 1853)
• M. hortorum (Fallén, 1817)
• M. micans (Macquart, 1855)
• M. podagrica (Loew, 1857)
• M. simplex (Loew, 1857)