Definition of Genus Musca

1. Noun. Type genus of the Muscidae: houseflies.

Exact synonyms: Musca
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Muscidae, Muscidae
Member holonyms: House Fly, Housefly, Musca Domestica

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Musca

genus Morchella
genus Morone
genus Morus
genus Moschus
genus Motacilla
genus Mucor
genus Mucuna
genus Mugil
genus Muhlenbergia
genus Mulloidichthys
genus Mullus
genus Muntiacus
genus Muntingia
genus Mus
genus Musa
genus Musca (current term)
genus Muscardinus
genus Muscari
genus Muscicapa
genus Muscivora
genus Musophaga
genus Mustela
genus Mustelus
genus Mutinus
genus Mutisia
genus Mya
genus Myadestes
genus Mycobacterium
genus Mycoplasma
genus Mycteria

Literary usage of Genus Musca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"FLY ; the name of a very troublesome insect ÍM-longing to the genus musca of naturalists. During the summer and autumn, much inconvenience is suffered from ..."

2. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"Though the Fly genus (Musca), thus defined, be much smaller than that of LIXX.CUS, it is still a very extensive group, in •which the moderns distinguish ..."

3. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"Biting Species of Musca The genus Musca apparently is a transitional genus as it contains both non-bloodsucking and bloodsucking flies. ..."

4. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"There are fifteen species of the genus Musca according to Bezzi and Stein in their Catalogue of the Palearctic Diptera. In North America there are thirteen ..."

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