- Biting flies
Biting flies may refer to:
*Black fly
*Horse-fly
*Tsetse fly
*Deer fly
*Mosquito
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Biting flies
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biting midge — n any of a large family (Ceratopogonidae) of tiny long legged dipteran flies that have piercing mouthparts, attack birds and various mammals including humans, and include various vectors of filarial worms … Medical dictionary
biting house fly — Stable Sta ble, n. [OF. estable, F. [ e]table, from L. stabulum, fr. stare to stand. See {Stand}, v. i.] A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
biting midge — noun Date: 1945 any of a family (Ceratopogonidae) of tiny biting dipteran flies of which some are vectors of filarial worms … New Collegiate Dictionary
biting midge — punkie. [1940 45] * * * ▪ insect any member of a family of small, bloodsucking insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are often serious pests along seashores, rivers, and lakes and may attack in great numbers and cause extreme discomfort. The… … Universalium
biting midge — noun Any Ceratopogonidae, a family of small flies (1 4 mm long) in the order Diptera. Syn: midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky … Wiktionary
non-biting midge — noun Any of various small two winged flies, belonging to the family Chironomidae, all belonging to the order Diptera. Syn: chironomid … Wiktionary
dipteran — /dip teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. dipterous (def. 1). n. 2. a dipterous insect. [1835 45; DIPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any member of the more than 85,000 species in the insect order Diptera (the two winged, or true, flies), characterized by the use of only one… … Universalium
insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… … Universalium
Insect morphology — Legend of body parts Tagmata : A Head, B Thorax, C Abdomen. 1. antenna 2. ocelli (lower) 3. ocelli (upper) 4. compound eye 5. brain (cerebral ganglia) 6. prothorax … Wikipedia
Tsetse fly — This page is about the insect. For other meanings, see Tsetse (disambiguation). Tsetse fly Tsetse fly Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
