However, fly activity tends to peak during the summer months, when the number of new generations is high.

The habitat of the M. stabulans It is similar to that of the housefly, found in animal housing such as chicken coops or poultry barns, as well as on the mucous membrane lining the intestines of mammals.

M. stabulans can be found in the carrion on the stages of decomposition, but have a strong preference for the later stages of decomposition.

The antennae of the stable fly can detect buried bodies. In such cases, the fly lays its eggs on the surface of the soil, and when the larvae hatch, they are able to reach a body buried just below the surface—several centimeters beneath the layer of dirt—and then invade the body.

Muscina is a genus of flies belonging to the family Muscidae; it currently comprises 27 species.

The most common species are M. stabulans, M. levida and M. prolapsa.

• Muscina angustifrons Loew 1858.
• Muscina arcuata Shinonaga 1989.
• Muscina aurantiaca Hough, 1899.
• Muscina brunnea.
• Muscina concolor.
• Muscina dorsilinea Wulp in 1896.
• Muscina flukei Snyder 1956.
• Muscina fulvacrura Snyder 1956.
• Muscina fungivora Robineau-Desvoidy 1830.
• Muscina grisea.
• Muscina heterochaeta Villeneuve, 1915.
• Muscina japonica Shinonaga 1974.
• Muscina krivosheinae Lobanov 1977.
• Muscina latipennis.
• Muscina levida Harris 1788.
• Muscina longicornis.
• Muscina less Portschinsky 1881.
• Muscina pascuorum Meigen 1826. 
• Muscina principalis Schiner 1868.
• Muscina prolapsa Harris, 1780.
• Muscina stabulans Fallen, 1817.
• Muscina sumatrensis Shinonaga and Kurahashi, 2002.
• Muscina texas.
• Muscina tripunctata Wulp in 1896.
• Muscina variocolor.

They typically breed in manure and defecate in their food, which has been linked to the spread of certain diseases, such as polio.

Features:

The legs of the false fly stables are part of red-gold or cinnamon. A species very close to her, Muscina assimilis (Fallén), Muscina levida (Harris), can also be found within and around the premises of intensive animal production, but is distinguished by the color of their legs, entirely black.

The thorax is gray and has four longitudinal stripes, and the posterior tip of the scutellum (the posterior dorsal lobe of the thorax) is pale yellow.

The abdomen is gray and black, with the appearance of being spotted.

Its head ranges in color from dark gray to a whitish hue; this fly has spiracles (circular plates) that are spaced apart by approximately the width of the plates in the posterior region.

The false stable fly does not suck blood and has sponging-sucking mouthparts; these are characterized by a retractable proboscis and a pale tip on the scutellum, like those of the common housefly, with black palpi; in contrast, the M. pascuorum tiene red antennae and is larger than the M. stabulans and M. levida.

M. stabulans it sometimes presents quite abundant in the facilities of intensive animal production, especially in the poultry farms, where breeding in the manure accumulated. However, on the whole, is rarely as abundant as other flies related.

On the wings, the fourth longitudinal vein (M1+2) does not curve and converges only slightly toward the vein preceding it; this arrangement is similar to that observed in the stable fly and quite different from that of the housefly, which has an abruptly broken vein (Figure 16 D).