#louse_fly__lousefly__hippoboscid blood-sucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
supertype: #dipterous_insect__dipterousinsect__two-winged_insects__dipteran__dipteron insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
subtype: #horse_tick #sheep_ked
member of: #family_Hippoboscidae__Hippoboscidae winged or wingless dipterans: louse flies
member of: #order_Diptera__Diptera a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
member of: #class_Insecta__Insecta__Hexapoda__class_Hexapoda insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
member of: #phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
member of: #kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
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