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Definition of Oestridae
1. Noun. Warble flies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Diptera, Order Diptera
Member holonyms: Genus Oestrus, Oestrus, Genus Hypoderma, Hypoderma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oestridae
Literary usage of Oestridae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"oestridae (Bot-flies).—Rather large or very large flies, with extremely short
antennae, bearing a segmented arista, the front of the head prominent, ..."
2. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"The family of the oestridae, to which they belong, ... Although much has been
written relating to the oestridae, our knowledge of the group is extremely ..."
3. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"oestridae or Bot-flies To the family oestridae belong the bot and warble-flies
so frequently injurious to animals. The adults are large, or of medium size, ..."
4. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"botanischen gesellschaft in Wien (1884, v. 34, p. 269-271, pi. io) the larva of
a new genus and species of oestridae from the stomach of Rhinoceros ..."
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