| 单词 | mangrove fly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmangrove fly mangrove fly n. any of various tropical African tabanid flies of the genus Chrysops, which are carriers of loaiasis; esp. C. dimidiata; also called mango fly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > genus Chrysops > chrysops dimidiatus (mangrove fly) mangrove fly1897 mango fly1910 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1067 A blood-sucking dipterous insect—Chrysops dimidiatus the ‘mangrove fly’. 1907 P. Manson Trop. Dis. (ed. 4) xlii. 683 Possibly the appropriate intermediary host is to be found amongst the cleggs, horse-flies or breeze-flies (Tabanidæ)... It is to these insects that the name of ‘mangrove flies’ is usually applied. 1929 W. S. Patton & A. M. Evans Insects, Ticks, Mites & Venomous Animals I. 294 The Tabanidæ have received various local names such as horseflies, seroot flies, mangrove flies, hippo flies. < as lemmas |
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