Calyptratae is a subsection of Schizophora in the insect order Diptera, commonly referred to as the calyptrate muscoids (or simply calyptrates). It consists of those flies which possess a calypter that covers the halteres, among which are some of the most familiar of all flies, such as the house fly.
About 18,000 described species are in this group, or about 12% of all the flies yet described.
Subsection Superfamily Muscoidea Anthomyiidae - cabbage flies Fanniidae Muscidae - house flies Scathophagidae - dung flies Superfamily Oestroidea Calliphoridae Mystacinobiidae Oestridae Rhinophoridae Sarcophagidae Tachinidae Ulurumyiidae Superfamily Hippoboscoidea Glossinidae Hippoboscidae Nycteribiidae Streblidae The Mormotomyiidae belong to the Ephydroidea and not to Hippoboscoidea as previously construed.Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Kotrba, M. & Copeland, R.S. 2011. Further details of the morphology of the enigmatic African fly Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen (Diptera: Mormotomyiidae). African Invertebrates 52 (1): 145-165. The Streblidae are probably not monophyletic.Petersen, Frederik Torp; Meier, Rudolf; Kutty, Sujatha Narayanan & Wiegmann, Brian M. (2007): The phylogeny and evolution of host choice in the Hippoboscoidea (Diptera) as reconstructed using four molecular markers. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45(1): 111–122. (HTML abstract)
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