muscomorph

English

Noun

muscomorph (plural muscomorphs)

1. Any fly of the infraorder Muscomorpha.
   • 2012, Doekele G. Stavenga, Facets of Vision, page 193:

     It thus becomes an interesting empirical question to ask whether the “advanced” axonal projection of the muscomorphs co-evolved with the trapezoidal rhabdomere pattern, or whether it developed fully only at some later stage in dipteran phylogeny.