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Flee | |
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Syrphus ribesii, shawin chairacteristic dipteran features: lairge een, smaw antennae, suckin moothpairts, single pair o fleein weengs, hindweengs reduced tae clublik halteres | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Cless: | Insecta |
(unranked): | Antliophora |
Order: | Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 |
Flees is insects o the Order Diptera (Greek: di = twa, an pteron = wing), that hase ae pair o wings on the mesothorax an a pair o halteres, derived frae the hind wings, on the metathorax. The hooseflee (Musca domestica) is a richt flee an is ane o the maist braid distreebute ainimals.