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n.

A fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) that sucks the blood of domestic animals and humans.


 
 
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Stable Fly
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Muscidae
Genus: Stomoxys
Species: S. calcitrans
Binomial name
Stomoxys calcitrans
Linnaeus, 1758

Stomoxys calcitrans is commonly called the stable fly or dog fly. Rather unusual for a member of the family Muscidae is that it sucks blood from mammals.

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