Stable fly

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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", "horse fly", or "dog fly". Rather unusual for a member of the family Muscidae is that it sucks blood from mammals.

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