Introduction ...7 // Morphology of adults ... 8 // Development and biology... 11 // Classification ... 12 // Survey of the Central European genera... 14 // Identification keys ... 15 // Key to families of Calyptrata...16 // Key to subfamilies and tribes ...16 // Key to genera... 18 // Keys to species ...22 // Review of species ...79 // Subfamily Achathipterinae...79 // Subfamily Muscinae...79 // Subfamily Phaoniinae... 110 // Subfamily Mydaeinae... 147 // Subfamily Coenosiinae... 156 // Plates ... 197 // Distribution of Central European Muscidae...251 // References ...263 // Index...273