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... mouthparts are drawn out still further . In Elephantomyia and other genera the entire snout has become a fine , tubular proboscis , many times the length of the head , and the actual mouthparts at its tip are greatly reduced in size ...
... mouthparts are drawn out still further . In Elephantomyia and other genera the entire snout has become a fine , tubular proboscis , many times the length of the head , and the actual mouthparts at its tip are greatly reduced in size ...
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... mouthparts for piercing the skin . The new styles of blood- sucking will be practised equally by both sexes , not by females alone . No one really knows to what extent Rhagionidae use insect food in place of a blood - meal , and how far ...
... mouthparts for piercing the skin . The new styles of blood- sucking will be practised equally by both sexes , not by females alone . No one really knows to what extent Rhagionidae use insect food in place of a blood - meal , and how far ...
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... mouthparts , and does not appear to feed as an adult . I gave it the name of Oestranthrax pagdeni , putting it into a small genus of bee- flies without functional mouthparts , although none of those pre- viously known were nearly so big ...
... mouthparts , and does not appear to feed as an adult . I gave it the name of Oestranthrax pagdeni , putting it into a small genus of bee- flies without functional mouthparts , although none of those pre- viously known were nearly so big ...
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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