louse fly (redirected from Louse flies)

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Noun

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louse fly - bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals hippoboscid dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - 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 family Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae - winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies Hippobosca equina, horse tick, horsefly - winged fly parasitic on horses Melophagus Ovinus, sheep ked, sheep tick, sheep-tick - wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle