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bat fly

Wingless parasitic fly. Bat flies are tiny, bloodsucking, external parasites of bats and look rather spiderlike.

Penicillidia dufouri measures about 5 mm/0.2 in in length, is rust-brown in colour and parasitizes mouse-eared bats.

Classification

Bat flies are in the families Nycteribiidae and Streblidae, order Diptera, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda.



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