Definition of Genus melophagus

1. Noun. An arthropod genus of wingless flies including the sheep ked.

Exact synonyms: Melophagus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Hippoboscidae, Hippoboscidae
Member holonyms: Melophagus Ovinus, Sheep Ked, Sheep Tick, Sheep-tick

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Melophagus

genus Melanoplus
genus Melanotis
genus Melastoma
genus Meleagris
genus Meles
genus Melia
genus Melicocca
genus Melicoccus
genus Melicytus
genus Melilotus
genus Melissa
genus Mellivora
genus Melocactus
genus Melogale
genus Melolontha
genus Melophagus
genus Melopsittacus
genus Melospiza
genus Melursus
genus Menippe
genus Meniscium
genus Menopon
genus Mentha
genus Menticirrhus
genus Mentzelia
genus Menura
genus Menyanthes
genus Menziesia
genus Mephitis

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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