Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyHippoboscidae
Observations recorded59,746
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 672
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Hippoboscidae
- Collections
- MSU, UAM, DMNS
- Recorded in
- United States, India
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Systematics
- See also
- References
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Hippoboscidae, the louse flies or keds, are obligate parasites of mammals and birds. In this family, the winged species can fly at least reasonably well, though others with vestigial or no wings are flightless and highly apomorphic. As usual in their superfamily Hippoboscoidea, most of the larval development takes place within the mother's body, and pupation occurs almost immediately.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hippoboscidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.