| NOUN | animal | Hippoboscidae, family Hippoboscidae | winged or wingless dipterans |
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| Meaning | winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies. | |
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| Synonym | family Hippoboscidae | |
| Member of | Diptera, order Diptera | A large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths |
| Members | Hippobosca, genus Hippobosca | type genus of the Hippoboscidae |
| Melophagus, genus Melophagus | An arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked | |
| louse fly, hippoboscid | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals | |
| Broader | arthropod family | Any of the arthropods |
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