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... mammals : apparently it treats ostriches as if they were merely feathered relatives of the ungulate mammals with which they roam the African plains . Chrysops , though its structure shows it to belong to an older branch of the family ...
... mammals : apparently it treats ostriches as if they were merely feathered relatives of the ungulate mammals with which they roam the African plains . Chrysops , though its structure shows it to belong to an older branch of the family ...
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... mammals have existed is suggested by the fact that the kangaroos have a species of their own , put into a separate genus as Tracheomyia macropi , living not in the head sinuses , but in the mucus in the windpipe . These larvae feed ...
... mammals have existed is suggested by the fact that the kangaroos have a species of their own , put into a separate genus as Tracheomyia macropi , living not in the head sinuses , but in the mucus in the windpipe . These larvae feed ...
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... mammals that happened to be there , regardless of their zoological classification . Bequaert suggests that the wallaby - flies have changed less from the ancestral bird - feeding Figure 36. A bat - parasite , of the family Streblidae ...
... mammals that happened to be there , regardless of their zoological classification . Bequaert suggests that the wallaby - flies have changed less from the ancestral bird - feeding Figure 36. A bat - parasite , of the family Streblidae ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 32 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
CRANEFLIES | 29 |
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abdomen acalyptrate actively adapted adult flies African Agromyzidae animals appearance aquatic larvae Asilidae attack bats bee-flies bees behaviour biological birds biting black-flies blood bloodsucking blow-flies body Bombyliidae Brachycera breed Calliphora carnivorous Cecidomyiidae Chapter Chironomidae Chloropidae Chrysops crane-flies Cyclorrhapha decaying developed Diptera disease Dolichopodidae dung egg-laying eggs emerge Empididae Empids Ephydridae evolution evolutionary evolved eyes families of flies female flight flowers genera genus gnats habit habitats head Hippoboscidae horse-flies host hover-flies hovering insects known large numbers larvae larvae feed larvae live legs Lucilia maggot males mammals mandibles mating midges mosquitoes mouthparts Muscidae Mycetophilidae Nematocera nests non-biting Nycteribiidae organic oxygen parasites perhaps Phorids piercing plants prey primitive proboscis pupae pupal pupate robber-flies seen Simulium skin soil sometimes species spiracles stage Stratiomyidae Streblidae sub-family suck surface swarms Syrphid Syrphidae Tabanidae Tabanus terrestrial thorax tion tissues tropical Trypetidae tsetse-flies vegetation wasps wings