Musca (Latin for 'the fly') is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of 12 constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations...
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Housefly (redirect from Musca domestica)
The housefly (Musca domestica) is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha. It possibly originated in the Middle East, and spread around the world as a commensal...
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Musca is a genus of flies. It includes Musca domestica (the housefly), as well as Musca autumnalis (the face fly or autumn housefly). It is part of the...
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Look up musca or Musca in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Musca (The Fly, Musca Australis, Southern Fly) is a small constellation in the deep southern...
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Musca Borealis (Latin for northern fly) was a constellation, now discarded, located between the constellations of Aries and Perseus. It was originally...
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Musca vetustissima, commonly known as the Australian bush fly, is a species of fly found in Australia. It is the specific fly that has given rise to the...
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Tom Musca (born 1951) is an American filmmaker and professor. Musca received a BA from Rutgers University in 1973 and an MFA from the University of California...
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Musca osiris is a species of fly in the genus Musca. It and Musca vitripennis are the only two species of Musca native to the Palearctic realm, according...
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Musca vitripennis is a species of fly in the genus Musca. According to Willi Hennig, M. vitripennis is one of only two species of Musca native to the...
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Musca depicta ("painted fly" in Latin; plural: muscae depictae) is a depiction of a fly as a conspicuous element of various paintings. The feature was...
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Musca autumnalis, the face fly or autumn housefly, is a pest of cattle and horses. The face fly is similar to the closely related housefly but is slightly...
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Mona Octavia Muscă (born Mona Octavia Nicoară; May 4, 1949) is a Romanian philologist and politician. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL)...
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Eristalis tenax (redirect from Musca tenax)
Genus: Eristalis Species: E. tenax Binomial name Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Eristalis campestris Meigen, 1822 Musca tenax Linnaeus, 1758...
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Xavier Musca (born 23 February 1960 in Bastia, Corsica) is a French economist, writer, and public administrator. In February 2011, he was appointed the...
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Musca albina is a widespread Old World species of fly, known from the dry areas of the Afrotropical realm, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia...
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comedy-drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca. It is based on the true story of Garfield High School mathematics teacher...
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constellations of Scorpius, Ara, Norma, Triangulum Australe, Circinus, Centaurus, Musca, Crux, Carina, Vela, Puppis, Canis Major, Monoceros, Orion and Gemini, Taurus...
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Scenopinus fenestralis (redirect from Musca fenestralis)
Scenopinus fenestralis, the window fly, is a member of the Scenopinidae family of flies, found in Europe, including Central Europe and Southern England...
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Doleschall, 1857, Musca azurea Doleschall, 1858, Musca inducta Walker, 1852, Musca inscribens Walker, 1860, Musca marginifera Walker, 1859, Musca metilia Walker...
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of which are mapped in the neighbouring constellations of Centaurus and Musca. The bright stars in Crux were known to the Ancient Greeks, where Ptolemy...
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Calliphora vomitoria (redirect from Musca vomitoria)
vomitoria Binomial name Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms Calliphora rubrifrons Townsend Musca obscoena Eschscholz Musca vomitoria Linnaeus...
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1780) Epistrophe balteata Musca balteatus De Geer, 1776 Musca cannabinus Scopoli, 1763 Musca scitule Harris, 1780 Musca scitulus Harris, 1780 Syrphus...
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Musca hydroleon – Odontomyia hydroleon Musca pantherina – Nemotelus pantherinus Musca morio – Hemipenthes morio Musca maura – Hemipenthes maura Musca...
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Musca sorbens, the bazaar fly or eye-seeking fly, is a close relative of, and very similar in appearance to, the housefly (Musca domestica). It is found...
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Melting Pot, also known as Race, is a 1998 feature film directed by Tom Musca, writer and producer of Stand and Deliver. Gustavo Alvarez is a Latino house...
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Delphinia picta (redirect from Musca picta)
Camptoneura picta Fabricius Delphinia thoracica Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 Musca picta Fabricius, 1781 Tephritis conica Fabricius, 1805 Urophora nigriventris...
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Thelaira nigripes (redirect from Musca nigrina)
"Beskrifning öfver de i Sverige funna fluge arter, som kunna föres till slägtet Musca. Första afdelningen". Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar....
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Ascuta musca is a species of spider in the family Orsolobidae. The species is endemic to New Zealand. This species was described in 1985 by Ray Forster...
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Lesser house fly (redirect from Musca canicularis)
Fannia tuberosa (Ruricola, 1845) Musca canicularis Linnaeus, 1761 Musca lateralis Linnaeus, 1758 Musca socio Harris, 1780 Musca sociominor Harris, 1780...
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Drosophila funebris (redirect from Musca funebris)
described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1787, and placed in the genus Musca but is now the type species of the paraphyletic genus Drosophila. Drosophila...
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