stable fly

English

The most widely recognized species of stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, resembles a smallish housefly, but, instead of the sponging mouthparts of a housefly, has a hard, dark, forward-projecting proboscis, capable of piercing an animal's skin for sucking blood.

Noun

stable fly (plural stable flies)

1. Any of several medium-sized flies in the genus Stomoxys, of the family Muscidae that includes the housefly. The genus is unusual among members of that family, in that they suck blood from mammals.
   1. Stomoxys calcitrans.

Synonyms

• (Stomoxys calcitrans): biting house fly, barn fly, dog fly, power mower fly

Translations

stable fly

• Armenian: շնաճանճ (hy) (šnačanč)
• Catalan: mosca dels estables
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螫蠅 / 螫蝇 (zh) (shìyíng)

• Finnish: pistokärpänen
• German: Wadenstecher
• Italian: mosca canina
• Japanese: サシバエ (sashibae)
• Kikuyu: thigai class 9/10
• Portuguese: mosca-de-estábulo f
• Russian: осе́нняя жига́лка f (osénnjaja žigálka)
• Spanish: mosca de los establos
• Turkish: kara sinek

References

• stable fly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stomoxys on Wikispecies.Wikispecies