hippoboscid

Definitions of hippoboscid

1. noun

   bloodsucking dipterous fly parasitic on birds and mammals
   synonyms: louse fly

   types:

   Hippobosca equina, horse tick, horsefly

   winged fly parasitic on horses

   Melophagus Ovinus, sheep ked, sheep tick, sheep-tick

   wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle

   type of:

   dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects

   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