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Definition of Genus Melophagus
1. Noun. An arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae
Member holonyms: Melophagus Ovinus, Sheep Ked, Sheep Tick, Sheep-tick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Melophagus
Literary usage of Genus Melophagus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Miscell., CXLVI; P. suis, Panz., Faun. Insect. Germ. LI, xvi, 1. The P. CWTI,
Panz., Ib., xv, belongs to the genus Melophagus, of the Dip- tera. ..."
2. The Practical study of malaria and other blood parasites by John William Watson Stephens (1904)
"(6) genus Melophagus. Eyes small. No arista on Four millimetres long. (c) Genus
Ornithomyia. Wings large. Four millimetres long. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Another genus, Melophagus, includes the wingless sheep- ticks ; a whole family,
the spider-like bat-ticks ..."
4. Illustrations of British Blood-sucking Flies by Ernest Edward Austen (1906)
"genus Melophagus, Latreille. Melophagus ovinus, Linn. The Sheep " Tick,'1
Sheep '' \.ou.se," or Keel. Plate 34, Fig. 2. A higher degree of adaptation to a ..."
5. Illustrations of British Blood-sucking Flies by Ernest Edward Austen (1906)
"genus Melophagus, Latreille. Melophagus ovinus, Linn. The Sheep " Tick," Sheep "
Louse," or Ked. Plate 34, Fig. 2. A higher degree of adaptation to a ..."
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