English > louse fly: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals. |
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| Synonym | hippoboscid |
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| Member of | Hippoboscidae, family Hippoboscidae | winged or wingless dipterans |
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| Narrower | horse tick, horsefly, Hippobosca equina | winged fly parasitic on horses |
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| sheep ked, sheep-tick, sheep tick, Melophagus Ovinus | wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle |
| Broader | dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
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