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Definition of Genus Musca
1. Noun. Type genus of the Muscidae: houseflies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Muscidae, Muscidae
Member holonyms: House Fly, Housefly, Musca Domestica
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Musca
Literary usage of Genus Musca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"FLY ; the name of a very troublesome insect ÍM-longing to the genus musca of
naturalists. During the summer and autumn, much inconvenience is suffered from ..."
2. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"Though the Fly genus (Musca), thus defined, be much smaller than that of LIXX.CUS,
it is still a very extensive group, in •which the moderns distinguish ..."
3. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"Biting Species of Musca The genus Musca apparently is a transitional genus as it
contains both non-bloodsucking and bloodsucking flies. ..."
4. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"There are fifteen species of the genus Musca according to Bezzi and Stein in
their Catalogue of the Palearctic Diptera. In North America there are thirteen ..."
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