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... Cyclorrhapha is a type of larva that seems most suited to a parasitic life , although in practice such larvae live in a great range of organic materials . He concluded that the maggot might originally have been developed for a parasitic ...
... Cyclorrhapha is a type of larva that seems most suited to a parasitic life , although in practice such larvae live in a great range of organic materials . He concluded that the maggot might originally have been developed for a parasitic ...
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... Cyclorrhapha ; older authors usually put them at the very end of Brachycera , but I think they are best seen as a collateral branch of the Cyclorrhapha . The peculiarities that we have just noted are also to be found among Hippoboscidae ...
... Cyclorrhapha ; older authors usually put them at the very end of Brachycera , but I think they are best seen as a collateral branch of the Cyclorrhapha . The peculiarities that we have just noted are also to be found among Hippoboscidae ...
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... Cyclorrhapha are an ' earthy ' group comparable to the land midges . Those mem- bers of this group that now have aquatic larvae of bloodsucking adults have developed these habits , and the structures that go with them , quite ...
... Cyclorrhapha are an ' earthy ' group comparable to the land midges . Those mem- bers of this group that now have aquatic larvae of bloodsucking adults have developed these habits , and the structures that go with them , quite ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
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