Flies

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85049104
- info:lc/authorities/sh85049104
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85049104#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Fly
Broader Terms
- Insects
Narrower Terms
- Blowflies
- Botflies
- Clusiidae
- Drosophilidae
- Fruit-flies
- Hessian fly
- Horn fly
- Horseflies
- Lauxaniidae
- Mayflies
- Nemestrinidae
- Robber flies
- Sawflies
- Shoot flies
- Solitary midges
- Sphaeroceridae
- Stoneflies
- Tachinidae
- Tsetse-flies
- Warble flies
Related Terms
- Diptera
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11976138q
Sources
- found: McGraw-Hill encyc. sci. tech.: v. 4, p. 297 ("The term fly also forms a part of the compound names of the insects in many other orders, such as butterfly, mayfly, and chalcid fly, but when used alone it is correctly applied only to the members of the Diptera.")
LC Classification
- QL531-QL538
Example Notes
- Example under [Household pests]
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1996-06-07: revised

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