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Definition of Muscidae
1. Noun. Two-winged flies especially the housefly.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Diptera, Order Diptera
Member holonyms: Genus Musca, Musca
Medical Definition of Muscidae
1. A family of the order diptera with over 700 species. The genera are musca domesticus (houseflies), musca autumnalis (face fly), stomoxys (stable fly), haematobia (horn fly), glossina spp. (tsetse flies), and fannia. Both sexes of the stable fly, horn fly and tsetse fly bite. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscidae
Literary usage of Muscidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1908)
"... only two lobes instead of three are found at the base of the posterior margin
of the wing. Three families of Diptera are included in the group muscidae ..."
2. A Laboratory Guide to the Study of Parasitology by William Brodbeck Herms (1913)
"The maxillary palpi are less prominent than in the other muscidae, but are
similarly located, at the proximal end of the proboscis. ..."
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