Editing Fly (section)

=== Relationships to other insects ===

Dipterans are [[Holometabolism|holometabolous]], meaning that they undergo radical metamorphosis. They belong to the [[Mecopterida]], alongside the [[Mecoptera]], [[Siphonaptera]], [[Lepidoptera]] and [[Trichoptera]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-14-52 |pmid=24646345 |pmc=4000048 |title=The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=52 |year=2014 |last1=Peters |first1=Ralph S. |last2=Meusemann |first2=Karen |last3=Petersen |first3=Malte |last4=Mayer |first4=Christoph |last5=Wilbrandt |first5=Jeanne |last6=Ziesmann |first6=Tanja |last7=Donath |first7=Alexander |last8=Kjer |first8=Karl M. |last9=Aspöck |first9=Ulrike |last10=Aspöck |first10=Horst |last11=Aberer |first11=Andre |last12=Stamatakis |first12=Alexandros |last13=Friedrich |first13=Frank |last14=Hünefeld |first14=Frank |last15=Niehuis |first15=Oliver |last16=Beutel |first16=Rolf G. |last17=Misof |first17=Bernhard |display-authors=6 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/TaxonTree.aspx?id=102510 |title=Taxon: Superorder Antliophora |website=The Taxonomicon |access-date=21 August 2007}}</ref> The possession of a single pair of wings distinguishes most true flies from other insects with "fly" in their names. However, some true flies such as [[Hippoboscidae]] (louse flies) have become secondarily wingless.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hutson |first=A. M. |year=1984 |title=Diptera: Keds, flat-flies & bat-flies (Hippoboscidae & Nycteribiidae) |page=84 |publisher=[[Royal Entomological Society of London]] |series=[[Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects]] |volume=10 pt 7}}</ref><ref name="Mayhew 2007">{{cite journal |last=Mayhew |first=Peter J. |title=Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies |journal=[[Biological Reviews]] |volume=82 |issue=3 |year=2007 |pages=425–454 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00018.x |pmid=17624962|s2cid=9356614 }}</ref>

The [[cladogram]] represents the current consensus view.<ref name=Kjer>{{Cite journal |last1=Kjer |first1=Karl M. |last2=Simon |first2=Chris|author2-link=Chris Simon (biologist) |last3=Yavorskaya |first3=Margarita |last4=Beutel |first4=Rolf G. |date=2016 |title=Progress, pitfalls and parallel universes: a history of insect phylogenetics |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Society Interface]] |volume=13 |issue=121 |page=121 |doi=10.1098/rsif.2016.0363 |pmid=27558853 |name-list-style=amp |pmc=5014063 }}</ref>

{{clade
|label1=[[Holometabola]]
|1={{clade
   |1=[[Hymenoptera]] (sawflies, wasps, ants, bees) [[File:European wasp white bg.jpg|70px]]
   |label2=[[Aparaglossata]]
   |2={{clade
      |label1=[[Neuropteroidea]]      
      |1={{clade
         |label1=[[Neuropterida]]
         |1={{clade
            |1=[[Raphidioptera]] (snakeflies) [[File:Raphidia icon.png|70px]]
            |label2=
            |2={{clade
               |1=[[Megaloptera]] (alderflies and allies) [[File:Corydalus cornutus illustration (rotated).png|70px]]
               |2=[[Neuroptera]] (Lacewings and allies) [[File:Osmylus_(white_background).jpg|70px]]
               }}
            }}
         |label2=[[Coleopterida]]
         |2={{clade
            |1=[[Coleoptera]] (beetles) [[File:Pseudacrossus przewalskyi (Reitter, 1887).jpg|50px]]
            |2=[[Strepsiptera]] (twisted-wing parasites) [[File:Elenchus koebelei.jpg|70px]]
            }}
         }}
      |label2=[[Panorpida]]|sublabel2=(Mecopterida)
      |2={{clade
         |label1=[[Amphiesmenoptera]]
         |1={{clade
            |1=[[Trichoptera]] (caddisflies) [[File:RHYACOPHILA DORSALIS Male Pont Forge de Sailly Watigny 02 MHNT.jpg|70px]] 
            |2=[[Lepidoptera]] (butterflies, moths) [[File:Arctia villica SLU.JPG|70px]]
            }}
         |label2=Antliophora
         |2={{clade 
            |1='''Diptera''' [[File:Common house fly, Musca domestica.jpg|70px]] 
            |2={{clade
               |1=[[Mecoptera]] (scorpionflies)  [[File:Scorpionfly (white background).jpg|70px]]
               |2=[[Siphonaptera]] (fleas) [[File:Pulex irritans female ZSM (white background).jpg|40px]]
               }}
            }}
         }}
      }}
   }}
}}