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Coleoptera
- Beatles
- Complete metamorphosis
- Outer wings come together in a straight line
- Blister beetle is pathogenic to horses, released cantharidin
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Hemiptera
- True bugs, including kissing bug and bed bug
- Incomplete metamorphosis
- V-shaped wing
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Dictyoptera
- Cockroaches
- Incomplete metamorphosis
- Chewing mouthparts
- Mechanical vector
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Hymenoptera
Bees, ants, wasps
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Lepidoptera
- Butterflies and moths
- Complete metamorphosis
- Setae - antigenic spines on caterpillar
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Diptera
- Flies, mosquitoes, sand flies
- Complete metamorphosis
- Halteres - stabalizing second pair of wings
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Culicidae
- Mosquitos
- Piercing-sucking mouthparts
- Transmits malaria, filarial nematodes, arboviruses
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Simuliidae
- Black flies
- Cutting-lapping mouthparts
- Transmits leucocytozoon, onchocerca volvulus
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Psychodidae
- Sand flies
- Hairy
- Transmits leishmania
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Tabanidae
- Horse and Deer flies
- Cutting-lapping mouth parts
- Very large compound eyes
- Mechanical vector, transmits tularemia, anthrax, trypanosomes, loa loa
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Hippoboscidae
- Sheep keds
- Wingless
- Transmits trypanosomes, haemoproteus (malaria like)
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Musca domestica
- House fly
- Sponging mouth parts
- Trasmits draschia, habronema
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Musca autumnalis
- Face Fly
- Sponging mouth parts
- Pinkeye
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Stomoxys calcitrans
- Stable fly
- Bayonet mouth parts
- Mechanical vecotr
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Haematobia irritans
- Horn fly
- Smaller bayonet mouth parts
- No transmissions
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Calliphoridae
- Blue bottle flies (blow flies)
- Sponging mouth parts
- Surface (maggot)
- Facultative myiasis
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Sarcophagidae
- Flesh fly
- Mix of obligatory and facultative myiasis
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Oestridae (Oestrus ovis)
- Sheep nasal bot
- Internal obligatory myiasis
- Zoonotic
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Hypodernatidae (Hypoderma sp.)
- Warbles, cattle grub
- Larvae hatch on rear end, migrate to back
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Gasterophilidae (Gasterophilus sp)
Horse stomach bot
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Cuterebridae (Cuterebra)
Rabbit or rodent bots
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Dermatobia hominis
- Human botfly
- Fly doesn't interact with humans, lays eggs on ticks, mosquitoes etc.
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