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Yes, flies are arthropods. Phylum arthropoda has subgroup (clade) Pancrustacea containing Hexapoda and below it, the true insects, Insectae. Flies are in order Diptera (in several groupings below Insecta.)

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Yes. All insects are arthropods.

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