Talk:Tabanus nigrovittatus

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[edit] Common names of true flies

In his fine popular introduction to the insect order Diptera, The natural history of flies (1964), Harold Oldroyd mentions what seems to be a rule of thumb: whereas butterfly, damselfly, and other non-dipteran insect have the word fly within their common names, true flies are ked flies, bat flies, tsetse flies, filth flies, blow flies, horse flies, vinager flies, fruit flies, and so on (with nary a hyphen in sight). Far be it from me to legislate about common names of insects, but this is one case where we might reasonably remove the hyphen in horse-fly. --Wloveral (talk) 00:15, 30 May 2008 (UTC)