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Definition of Hippobosca equina

1. Noun. Winged fly parasitic on horses.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippobosca Equina

Literary usage of Hippobosca equina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"BY ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, FES hippobosca equina, 1 and 2, nat. size and magnified from life ; 3, pupa removed from egg-like puparium (after Reaumur); 4, ..."

2. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1818)
"16. Jig. 1, 2. Musca Equina tenax. Act. Ups. 1736, p. 31. 27. hippobosca equina, Linn. Sytt. Nat, xii. i. 1010. Fn. Sv. ed. alt. 1921. Fab. Sy»t. Ant. 337. ..."

3. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"This is a wingless species (Fig. 596), which lives upon sheep. Hippobosca equina (Hip-po-bos'ca e-qui'na) is winged and lives on the horse. ..."

4. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1872)
"hippobosca equina (Fig. 25) in Europe is exceedingly troublesome to horses and cattle ; they possess two wings, and from their flat shape, and the peculiar ..."

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