the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > genus Chrysops > chrysops dimidiatus (mangrove fly) (2)
any of various tropical African tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, which are carriers of loaiasis; esp. C. dimidiata; also called mango fly.
(a) = mangrove fly n. at mangrove, n.1 compounds 2; (b) = tumbu fly, n.