Species Profile
Musca domestica
Housefly
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Terrestrial insect associated with waste and filth.
Acts as a mechanical disease carrier.
Size & Structure
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Small grey body
02
Single pair of wings
03
Large compound eyes
04
Sponging mouthparts
Musca domestica — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate (haemocoel)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Present
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Ventral nerve cord
- Excretory organ
- Malpighian tubules
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic (euryhaline)
- Circulatory type
- Open
- Development type
- Indirect (complete metamorphosis)
- Respiratory type
- Tracheal
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Decomposer associate
Food chain member
Economic Importance
Vector of diseases
Public health importance