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Hippoboscidae

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n.1.A natural family of winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies.
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Noun1.Hippoboscidae - winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
family Hippoboscidae
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
Diptera, order Diptera - a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
hippoboscid, louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
genus Hippobosca, Hippobosca - type genus of the Hippoboscidae
genus Melophagus, Melophagus - an arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked
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We found a very low percentage of Bartonella DNA-positive flies, in contrast to the very high prevalence (57 [88%] of 65 observed in Hippoboscidae adult flies (Lipoptena cervi and Hippobosca equina) collected from domestic cattle and wild roe deer in France (H.
Bartonella spp. DNA associated with biting flies from California by Chomel, Bruno B. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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