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"Head of a female housefly with two large compound eyes and three ocelli" is the head of a Fannia species (Diptera: Fanniidae), not Musca domestica. Please remove.
I did check if WikiMedia has a decent picture of a female Musca domestica head but there were none. In general, the fly pictures in WikiMedia are -- to put it mildly -- not perfectly identified. As a guesstimate, I would say at least a third are definitely wrong and a fair chunk of the rest is unidentifiable at the claimed level.
Still better than the commercial photo libraries tho: I did once do a survey of some stock image company offers and for the housefly, they were over 90% wrong at a family level. For Drosophilas fruit flies, the error rate was 'only' 85%, but I did accept pictures of fruit and flies as "fruit flies" :)
Some rejected candidates:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Mosca_com%C3%BAn_%28Musca_domestica%29%2C_M%C3%BAnich%2C_Alemania%2C_2020-06-24%2C_DD_01-31_FS.jpg *= Probably a Helina (Muscidae)*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosca_com%C3%BAn_(Musca_domestica),_M%C3%BAnich,_Alemania,_2020-06-24,_DD_61-75_FS.jpg *= Probably a Helina (Muscidae)*
Done Day Creature (talk) 22:32, 9 November 2025 (UTC)